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Category Archives: Consciousness
The First Minds: Caterpillars, Karyotes, and Consciousness
The book by Arthur Reber that I mentioned in my last post arrived from Amazon. I’ve read it and would like to provide some additional thoughts on my previous post. I won’t repeat ground covered in the previous post so … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Human Evolution, Mysteries, Origin of Life
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Cellular Basis of Consciousness
Arthur S. Reber is an interesting character. He is best known in academic circles for theories of implicit learning. He has also written several books on gambling with a view to maximizing gains and minimizing losses. He has written one … Continue reading
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EM Field Integrates Information Spatially in Brain
Johnjoe McFadden has a new paper Integrating information in the brain’s EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness. In it he writes : “that consciousness implements algorithms in space, rather than time, within the brain’s EM field. I describe … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Electromagnetism, Information
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