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‘Funda-mentality’: is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?
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Age-old battle lines over the puzzling nature of mental experience are shaping a modern resurgence in the study of consciousness. On one side are the long-dominant `physicalists' who view consciousness as an emergent property of the brain's neural networks. On the alternative, rebellious side are those who see a necessary added ingredient: proto-conscious experience intrinsic to reality, perhaps understandable through modern physics (panpsychists, pan-experientialists, `funda-mentalists'). It is argued here that the physicalist premise alone is unable to solve completely the difficult issues of consciousness and that to do so will require supplemental panpsychist/pan-experiential philosophy expressed in modern physics. In one scheme proto-conscious experience is a basic property of physical reality accessible to a quantum process associated with brain activity. The proposed process is Roger Penrose's `objective reduction' (OR), a self-organizing `collapse' of the quantum wave function related to instability at the most basic level of space-time geometry. In the Penrose-Hameroff model of `orchestrated objective reduction' (Orch OR), OR quantum computation occurs in cytoskeletal microtubules within the brain's neurons. The basic thesis is that consciousness involves brain activities coupled to self-organizing ripples in fundamental reality.
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- Hameroff, S.
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- University of Arizona (US)
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- Hameroff, S
- ORCID
- Hameroff, S
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- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-04-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 4
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- 119-124
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- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Biofield Effects and Biophysics
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- consciousness, panpsychism, fundamentalism, physicalism, emergent consciousness, quantum consciousness, objective reduction, Orchestrated Objective Reduction, microtubules, quantum computing
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