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Consciousness: A Direct Link with Life's Origin?

A. N. Mitra, Gargi Mitra-Delmotte

arXiv Preprint Archive February 15, 2011 preprint

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper
Topics Philosophy of mind
Keywords Q-bio.ot Quant-ph Quantum biology Biophysics Origin of life Quantum physics physics.hist-ph
Key points Proposes that induction patterns in field-susceptible biomatter may be linked to consciousness and may have had simpler beginnings.

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?

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