Emotional sentience and the nature of phenomenal experience

Kauffman, Katherine Peil

doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.08.003

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“…The preservation of self-awareness is then best considered as a quantum process. Derivatively then, the subjective assessment of “self” becomes fundamentally related to the status of the participant/observer relative to others [ 108 ]. Under such circumstances, as Fingelkurts et al assert, consciousness as we experience it becomes a neural collective phenomenon dependent upon a “nested hierarchy of electromagnetic fields of brain activity” in which subjective and objective reality represents a “unified metastable continuum guided by the universal laws of the physical world such as criticality, self-organization and emergence.” [ 109 ].…”

Section: Cognition Is Fundamentalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognition, Information Fields and Hologenomic Entanglement: Evolution in Light and Shadow

Miller

2016

Biology

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As the prime unification of Darwinism and genetics, the Modern Synthesis continues to epitomize mainstay evolutionary theory. Many decades after its formulation, its anchor assumptions remain fixed: conflict between macro organic organisms and selection at that level represent the near totality of any evolutionary narrative. However, intervening research has revealed a less easily appraised cellular and microbial focus for eukaryotic existence. It is now established that all multicellular eukaryotic organisms are holobionts representing complex collaborations between the co-aligned microbiome of each eukaryote and its innate cells into extensive mixed cellular ecologies. Each of these ecological constituents has demonstrated faculties consistent with basal cognition. Consequently, an alternative hologenomic entanglement model is proposed with cognition at its center and conceptualized as Pervasive Information Fields within a quantum framework. Evolutionary development can then be reconsidered as being continuously based upon communication between self-referential constituencies reiterated at every scope and scale. Immunological reactions support and reinforce self-recognition juxtaposed against external environmental stresses.

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Section: Cognition Is Fundamentalmentioning

confidence: 99%