Space and time are irreducible dimensions of nature—measurable but not derivable from anything more fundamental. Life and experience are here proposed as similarly irreducible dimensions. Together—sometimes referred to as lifeexperience to mark their inseparability—they constitute the dimensional ground from which emerges the Force of Experience—proposed as a candidate fifth fundamental force...
Abstract Standard physicalism often renders subjective experience epiphenomenal, while interactionist accounts struggle to reconcile mental causation with energy conservation. We propose the force of experience : a real, physically efficacious force exerted by experience on neural architecture. To address the objection that a fundamental force should act universally, we introduce biological...
Penrose and Hameroff assert that brain computations, including quantum computations, involving hydrophobic areas of microtubules whose electron clouds go into orchestrated superpositions and reductions that lead to proto-conscious elements, or "bings" that become orchestrated into conscious experiences. Their assertion, however, like the findings of the neural correlates of consciousness, does...