--- abstract: "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." altloc: - http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hameroff/tics.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Hameroff given: Stuart R. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1998-04 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-11-28 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/03/69 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 369 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/369/1/tics.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'consciousness, quantum computation, microtubules, Penrose-Hameroff theory, Orch OR, pan-experientialism, qubit, cytoskeleton, spacetime geometry, panpsychism, volition, face recognition, tubulin, gap junctions, quantumstates, quantum collapse, pre-conscious processing, quantumsuperposition, objective reduction, orchestrated objectivereduction, non-computability, general relativity, neurophysiology, proteins, protein conformational dynamics, synaptic function, London forces, van der Waals forces, pan-protopsychism, metaphysics, Whitehead, actin, sol-gel transitions, isolation, environmental decoherence, quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum computing, freewill, cognition, modern physics' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:51 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 4 pagerange: 119-127 pubdom: FALSE publication: Trends in Cognitive Sciences publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:27:02 subjects: - bio-theory - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: '"Funda-Mentality": is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?' type: journalp userid: 170 volume: 2