<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "\"Funda-Mentality\": is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?"^^ . "Age-old battle lines over the puzzling nature of mental experience are shaping a modern resurgence in the study of consciousness. On one side are the long-dominant \"physicalists\" who view consciousness as an emergent property of the brain's neural networks. On the alternative, rebellious side are those who see a necessary added ingredient: proto-conscious experience intrinsic to reality, perhaps understandable through modern physics (panpsychists, pan-experientialists, \"funda-mentalists\"). It is argued here that the physicalist premise alone is unable to solve completely the difficult issues of consciousness and that to do so will require supplemental panpsychist/pan-experiential philosophy expressed in modern physics. In one scheme proto-conscious experience is a basic property of physical reality accessible to a quantum process associated with brain activity. The proposed process is Roger Penrose's \"objective reduction\" (OR), a self-organizing \"collapse\" of the quantum wave function related to instability at the most basic level of space-time geometry. In the Penrose- Hameroff model of \"orchestrated objective reduction\" (Orch OR), OR quantum computation occurs in cytoskeletal microtubules within the brain's neurons. The basic thesis is that consciousness involves brain activities coupled to a self-organizing ripples in fundamental reality."^^ . "1998-04" . . "2" . "4" . . "Trends in Cognitive Sciences"^^ . . . . . . . . "Stuart R."^^ . "Hameroff"^^ . "Stuart R. Hameroff"^^ . . . . . . "\"Funda-Mentality\": is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe? (HTML)"^^ . . . "csFig03.GIF"^^ . . . "csFigsSch.GIF"^^ . . . "tics.html"^^ . . . "csFig01.GIF"^^ . . . "csFig02.GIF"^^ . . . "\"Funda-Mentality\": is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe? (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #369 \n\n\"Funda-Mentality\": is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Theoretical Biology" . . . "Philosophy of Mind" . .