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Consciousness: A Direct Link with Life's Origin?

History and Philosophy of Physics 2012-01-30 v1 Other Quantitative Biology Quantum Physics

Abstract

Inspired by the Penrose-Hameroff thesis, we are intuitively led to examine an intriguing correspondence of 'induction' (by fields), with the complex phenomenon of (metabolism-sustained) consciousness: Did sequences of associated induction patterns in field-susceptible biomatter have simpler beginnings?

Cite

@article{arxiv.1102.3158,
  title  = {Consciousness: A Direct Link with Life's Origin?},
  author = {A. N. Mitra and Gargi Mitra-Delmotte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3158},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

15 pages, 1 figure, .pdf file; Keywords: mind-matter; field-driven assembly; induction; environment; solitons; coherence; magnetism

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