Consciousness: A Direct Link with Life's Origin?
arXiv:1102.3158
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?
15 pages, 1 figure, .pdf file; Keywords: mind-matter; field-driven assembly; induction; environment; solitons; coherence; magnetism