Competitive Coherence Generates Qualia in Bacteria and Other Living Systems.
Biology October 12, 2021 Vic Norris
The relevance of bacteria to subjective experiences or qualia is underappreciated. Here, I make four proposals. Firstly, living systems traverse sequences of active states that determine their behaviour; these states result from competitive coherence, which depends on connectivity-based competition between a Next process and a Now process, whereby elements in the active state at time n+1 are...