Consciousness as Topologic Information Integrator
Robert Skopec
Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research July 23, 2018 DOI: 10.26717/bjstr.2018.07.001456 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that while the spontaneous emergence of living states in physico-chemical systems is extremely improbable, biological systems achieve it continuously, and proposes that consciousness performs a "re-normalization" of state probabilities that is topologically determined by a higher structural level ("omnicausal determinance"), a property the author contends spans all levels of the biological hierarchy from neuron to biosphere. |
Abstract
Summarizing we can describe the following logical chain.Spontaneous appearance of "living" states in physico-chemical systems is impossible in sense that it is extremely improbable.However, with the help of the biological systems this process constantly occurs.Hence, the consciousness make re-normalization of probabilities of states and it is topologically determined by higher structural level (omnicausal determinance).Such omnicausal re-normalization of probabilities, as was mentioned although not evidently by many authors, is a characteristic for all levels of the biological hierarchy from a neuron up to the biosphere.