TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints369
UR  - http://cogprints.org/369/
A1  - Hameroff, Stuart R.
Y1  - 1998/04//
N2  - 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.
KW  - consciousness
KW  -  quantum computation
KW  -  microtubules
KW  -  Penrose-Hameroff theory
KW  -  Orch OR
KW  -  pan-experientialism
KW  -  qubit
KW  -  cytoskeleton
KW  -  spacetime geometry
KW  -  panpsychism
KW  -  volition
KW  -  face recognition
KW  -  tubulin
KW  -  gap junctions
KW  -  quantumstates
KW  -  quantum collapse
KW  -  pre-conscious processing
KW  -  quantumsuperposition
KW  -  objective reduction
KW  -  orchestrated objectivereduction
KW  -  non-computability
KW  -  general relativity
KW  -  neurophysiology
KW  -  proteins
KW  -  protein conformational dynamics
KW  -  synaptic function
KW  -  London forces
KW  -  van der Waals forces
KW  -  pan-protopsychism
KW  -  metaphysics
KW  -  Whitehead
KW  -  actin
KW  -  sol-gel transitions
KW  -  isolation
KW  -  environmental decoherence
KW  -  quantum coherence
KW  -  entanglement
KW  -  quantum computing
KW  -  freewill
KW  -  cognition
KW  -  modern physics
TI  - "Funda-Mentality": is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?
SP  - 119
AV  - public
EP  - 127
ER  -

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