Microtubules are nanoscale spintronic oscillators with memristive properties. Spintronic and memristive effects, together with some unique conditions found in the axon initial segment (AIS), allow quantum coherence to emerge spontaneously in a population of microtubules located within the AIS. According to the QBIT theory, the spontaneous emergence of coherence in a population of microtubules...
Plant cognition has progressed from anecdote to rigor, yet the field still lacks a quantitative test for when distributed plant activity crosses into unified - perhaps conscious - processing. I introduce Pattern-Temporal Synergy (PTS), a substrate-agnostic metric rooted in Dynergeia, a relation-first ontology in which consciousness is reflexive coherence among five universal patterns -...
We present a general discussion concerning the wholeness of what has been called infinite awareness, but here is called Omni-local consciousness. This model of consciousness has an interconnecting structure that has both local and nonlocal features, that is, the model contains local conscious human minds and locates them within an infinite (Omni) background context of consciousness. This...
The natural history of consciousness, and the question of whether plants are conscious, in relation to the Hameroff-Penrose quantum-physical 'Orch OR' theory of universal consciousness.