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