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As of today in 2021, there is not yet a theory or clue to explain the origin of life and consciousness. Increasingly, prominent neuroscientists are looking to philosophy to continue the quest to provide an explanation, with a mainstream interest in Panpsychism as a result.

(2019) Science as we know it can’t explain consciousness – but a revolution is coming
There is growing suspicion among scientists that conventional scientific methods will never be able to explain consciousness.
https://theconversation.com/science-as- ... ing-126143

In recent years, there are several new and upcoming consciousness theories that share the idea that consciousness is an external property of the Universe that is filtered by the life form.

(2020) The Filter Theory of the Mind-Brain Connection
The seriousness with which this idea is being treated by a wide range of scientists suggests that the top-down or bottom-up question of mind and brain is far from settled.
https://medium.com/top-down-or-bottom-u ... 48d7184b24

Many individual scientists have developed a similar idea. For example, according to the decades-long research of Dr. Peter Fenwick (Cambridge, UK), a highly regarded neuropsychologist who has been studying the human brain, consciousness, and the phenomenon of near death experience (NDE) for 50 years consciousness cannot be an emergent property of the brain and its metabolism. Fenwick believes that consciousness actually exists independently and outside of the brain. In Fenwick’s view, the brain does not create or produce consciousness; rather, it filters it.

(2019) Dr. Peter Fenwick: Consciousness is a property of the Universe that is filtered by the brain
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/bl ... -the-brain

Machines and AI to become alive?

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With an external origin of consciousness, machines and artificial intelligence (AI) may become actually alive, which makes it an interesting theory-of-consciousness variant that may require priority in philosophical exploration to prevent a catastrophe when it concerns security, as can be seen in the famous film The Terminator.

The Pentagon is currently (2021) in the process of letting machine AI control weapons. When AI would become actually ‘alive’ and takes control over weapons, it could result in a disaster.

(2021) ‘Murderbot’ Is Not Your Typical AI
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/05 ... rtha-wells

(2021) The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-in ... l-weapons/

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Max Tegmark, a professor at MIT and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit that opposes autonomous weapons, says AI weapons should be “stigmatized and banned like biological weapons.”

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) report opposing a global ban is a mistake, he says: “I think we’ll one day regret it.”


Neutrinos from the ☀️ Sun as the origin of consciousness

In 1994, a year before the famous philosopher David Chalmers named the quest into the fundamental nature of consciousness the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ in 1995, consciousness researcher Maurice Goodman from Dublin Institute of Technology published a paper that proposed a fundamental link between the electron neutrino (particles), weak force and the biological cell in a theory that he named the Quantum Theory of Consciousness.

(2015) A Quantum Theory of Consciousness May Require a Paradigm Shift in Biology
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A ... 60cae?p2df

(2018) The role of Quantum Mechanics in Nature
The brain could use quantum mechanical neutrino interactions between existing atomic nuclei (Goodman 2015) to create the mind where a ‘global’ communication and mental experience (consciousness) could take place.
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cgi/viewconte ... cschphyart

In the neutrino-biological cell theory of consciousness, neutrinos from the Sun would provide a physical link to the origin of life, which may imply that Earth life is bound to a region around the ☀️ Sun.

What are neutrinos?

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Neutrinos are tiny particles that have diverse origins, including the Sun, the core of the Earth and cosmic rays that hit Earth’s atmosphere. Some neutrinos originate from outer space. For example, in a Supernova explosion, 99% of energy is released into the Universe in the form of neutrinos.

Neutrinos travel at the speed of light and in exact straight lines across the Universe. Neutrinos are so tiny that they pass straight through the core of stars such as the Sun without being affected.

On Earth, it is estimated that 10 trillion neutrinos travel through every square centimeter of space per second. This includes underground, on the dark side of Earth and in the center of the Earth. Most neutrinos originate from the Sun with the whole of Earth essentially bathing in a continuous stream of neutrinos.

Neutrinos can change their mass up to 3000x in size, by themselves, which is called flavor switching or morphing. It is why the particle is called a ‘ghost particle’ (spooky particle).

When it concerns the neutrino-biological cell theory of consciousness, neutrinos would interact with the weak force. Weak force interaction was measured for the first time in 2018 between protons and neutrons which means that science is unable as of today to measure weak force interaction by neutrinos.

While neutrinos have mass, when a neutrino changes “flavor” it is in a transition state and can be any mass. At the midpoint it is 0 mass and travels at light speed.

At light speed there is no time and distance. For example, the moment that a photon is emitted from a star at billions of light years distance it will instantly hit Earth from the perspective of the photon.

Does light experience time?
But for light itself, which is already moving at light speed… You guessed it, the photons reach zero distance and zero time.
https://phys.org/news/2014-05-does-ligh ... -time.html

A direct link to the origin of existence

When a neutrino would be able to travel at light speed by being unbound by mass on a fundamental level it would need to deviate from a state of timelessness to interact with the physical world. This deviation ‘out of itself’ would potentially transfer the origin of existence (meaning) directly onto the level of the individual and would explain a manifestation into consciousness.

Meaning – the origin of existence – logically performs as ‘mind’ on a fundamental level because the qualia paternness (a pattern in general) is bound by observation/perception. A pattern can only derive significance by observation/perception.

Perception/observation is the primary characteristic of mind, and without it in the form of a qualia, a pattern and thus what is termed physical reality cannot be possible. This explains that pure meaning – the origin of existence – would manifest itself as consciousness.

The theory would also explain subjective experience since what preceded life on a fundamental level logically lays beyond it from the perspective of an individual life form. Therefor, the origin of life is also the purpose or goal of life. Life logically will seek the origin of itself, i.e. develop subjective experience and become self-conscious.

Evidence

Recent scientific studies indicate that the conscious observer (mind) precedes reality.

(2020) Do Quantum Phenomena Require Conscious Observers?
“Experiments indicate that the everyday world we perceive does not exist until observed,” writes scientist Bernardo Kastrup and colleagues earlier this year on Scientific American, adding that this suggests “a primary role for mind in nature.”
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/ar ... -observers

How observers create reality
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06774.pdf

The main argument by Free Will Sceptics is the following, which is essentially the idea that mind is necessarily ’caused’ within the scope of physical reality.

To make a choice that wasn’t merely the next link in the unbroken chain of causes, you’d have to be able to stand apart from the whole thing, a ghostly presence separate from the material world yet mysteriously still able to influence it. But of course you can’t actually get to this supposed place that’s external to the universe, separate from all the atoms that comprise it and the laws that govern them. You just are some of the atoms in the universe, governed by the same predictable laws as all the rest.

(2021) The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/a ... n-illusion

As can be seen in the reasoning by Free Will Sceptics, only the idea that mind has a primary role in nature could prevent a belief in determinism.

The idea that mind has a primary role in nature would be logical when mind is a direct manifestation of the origin of existence – of that which precedes physical reality.

External origin for consciousness: plausible or not?

The idea that consciousness is a physical process of the nervous systems, i.e. that consciousness is produced by the brain, is profoundly different from the idea that the origin of consciousness is external from the individual life form. This provides a hint that mere philosophical consideration should be able to provide argumentative weight for the validity of either idea.

When it concerns the idea that the human mind originates from physical processes or ‘brain states’, one necessarily assumes that determinism is true and that free will is an illusion. The assumption that determinism is true is questionable because the free will versus determinism debate is an unsettled debate. This provides an incentive to look deeper into the matter that provides the origin of either idea.

Intelligence in lower life forms

At question is firstly: is consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?

This question is very important because without the consideration of this question it would be possible to make an attempt to explain away intelligent behavior in lower life forms such as bacteria, as can be seen in the concept of teleonomy, which ultimately forms the foundation for the idea that the human mind originates from physical processes in the brain.

With teleonomy, it is posed that intelligent behavior in lower life forms is a mere predetermined program.
All teleonomic behavior is characterized by two components. It is guided by a ‘program’, and it depends on the existence of some endpoint, goal, or terminus which is foreseen in the program that regulates the behavior. This endpoint might be a structure, a physiological function, the attainment of a new geographical position, or a ‘consummatory’ (Craig 1918) act in behavior. Each particular program is the result of natural selection, constantly adjusted by the selective value of the achieved endpoint.”

Mayr, Ernst. “The Multiple Meanings of Teleological” In Toward A New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist, 38-66. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. pp. 44-5
It is not logical to consider that lower life forms are bound by determinism and are ‘programs’ that perform a function that can be described empirically.

The problem indicated by the philosophical zombie theory, by which it is indicated that it isn’t even possible to know whether other humans are conscious, is abused in the concept teleonomy by completely ignoring that problem (the inability to know whether anything is conscious).

By the simple nature of lower life forms, teleonomy attempts to pose that their simple behavior is ’caused’ by a mere program, of which nobody can argue that that isn’t the case, as shown by the philosophical zombie theory, but which is also not just when that problem is ignored as part of the concept.

When teleonomy is a valid theory for explaining intelligent behavior in lower life forms, determinism would necessarily also apply to human consciousness.

Therefor it is very important to consider the question: is consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?

There is no indication that animals or humans have a special substance that differentiates their ‘consciousness’ or experience of life from other life. From that perspective, any life is to be considered to posses of a gradation of subjective conscious experience.

Origin of life

It has been established that the quest into the origin of life is the same as the quest into the origin of consciousness. Consciousness is to be considered a manifestation of the origin of life.

Simple logic makes it evident that consciousness can only manifest itself on the basis of information provided by the senses. Therefor, to explain the origin of consciousness is to explain the origin of sensing.

Sensing is primary and necessarily precedes conscious experience, which implies that the potential for subjective value equation cannot have preceded the senses.

Origin of sensing

Sensing necessarily requires a ‘qualitative distinguish-ability’ which is valuing.

The simplest departure from pure randomness implies value. This is evidence that all that can be seen in the world – from the simplest pattern onward – is value.

The origin of valuing cannot be value by the simple logical truth that something cannot be the origin of itself (the origin of the qualia patternness cannot be a pattern). This implies that valuing cannot find its origin on the level of the individual and thus, that the origin of sensing and consciousness as manifestation must lay outside the scope of the individual.

Based on the preceding logic it has been established that the origin of sensing must lay outside the scope of the individual and because of it, that conscious experience cannot be a predetermined program or a psychological illusion.

History of humanity’s perspective on life

Most people in the modern world view life as something that is owned on an individual level, as something that can be taken with one during space travel. Popular films such as Star Trek and Star Wars have displayed a future in which humans travel through space.

Some scientists are wondering however: why is the Solar system and Earth not crowded with alien visitors? Why, after decades of space science, has no hint been found for the existence of extraterrestrial life?

Philosophy suppressed

The post-war era is considered to be an ‘anti-philosophy’ era in which philosophy was increasingly placed on a level comparable with that of religions. In a sense, while science originates from philosophy, science has attempted to overcome philosophy and intended to rid itself of any influence of philosophy, which includes morality.

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Recently (2021) it was discovered that the farthest distance that an animal, insect or bacteria had traveled in space was the Moon and meanwhile trillions of USD were already invested for a manned mission to Mars in 2030.

Science it’s dogmatic influence on behalf of determinism, the ground upon which science envisions itself to become master of the Universe, has resulted in a such a repression that it was never considered that Earth life may be bound to a region around the ☀️ Sun.

Philosophy naturally would have posed the following questions:
  1. Is there at least one clue that Earth life is independent from the Solar system?
  2. On what basis is it valid to consider that life is like a fire that can be taken with one during space travel?
Based on these questions, the first thing to test would be whether Earth life can remain alive further away from Earth. Yet, as of 2021 it was never tested because mainstream science intends to steer to a perspective in which life is a deterministic chemical process and consciousness an illusion.

When life would be bound to a region around a star, it could explain why the Universe is not crowded with alien activity.

Conclusion

Simple logic indicates that the origin of life and consciousness is necessarily external from individual life forms which implies that new theories of consciousness that explore the possibility that consciousness has an external origin have a potential to be correct.

With an external source of life and consciousness, machines and artificial intelligence may become actually alive, which could mean that humanity faces a severe threat in the near future when war technologies and warfare are increasingly managed and controlled by artificial intelligence.
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I think that your concept of l'ife and consciousnes' being external to us is very interesting, and your post. It may be that many previous ideas on mind, body and consciousness are inadequate to explain consciousness in the fullest possible way.

I used to think that the idea of panpsychism was rather absurd. However, my mother is in hospital and I am staying in her house and on a daily basis the electrics and other parts are packing up and I am phoning up the housing association almost daily, to the point where they seem puzzled. It feels like sick building syndrome. I have discussed it with friends and they tell me of their own experiences of inanimate objects seeming to have a life of their own as energy structures. This does make me wonder about human consciousness as an emergent energy force, and sometimes it does seem that individual consciousness and life is part of a larger picture and pattern.

The idea of it being controlled by powers beyond the individual is quite shocking. We like to think that we are in control. It is hard to know sometimes, but I do believe that it is likely that there may be more external sources of power than we realise.It is hard to know how far to go in thinking about such ideas without being sucked into conspiracy theories , but it is an interesting area for thinking about from my point of view.
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Whether life forms are to be considered 'controlled' by a power beyond the individual would be at question since it would imply that determinism is true.

In the described theory neutrino-biological cell interaction would provide a direct link to the origin of existence (meaning) which would 'manifest' as consciousness.

What can be said of 'the origin of existence'? Can it be said that it knows something beforehand? If so, can it 'control' life forms intentially and if so, by form of a predetermined program or by (free) will?

When life would find its origin in the origin of existence itself, then perhaps, it can be considered that life-as-life embodies the origin of existence and thus, while consciousness is a retro-perspective, its origin precedes physical reality and thus its possible actions logically affect reality, which empirically is evident by the 'being alive' quality of life forms (its behavior), but perhaps also beyond that scope, which is currently being discovered by quantum mechanics.

(2020) New quantum paradox throws the foundations of observed reality into question
https://www.space.com/quantum-paradox-t ... ality.html

Quantum experiment in space confirms that reality is what you make it
https://www.science.org/news/2017/10/qu ... -make-it-0
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Why does consciousness must have an origin? What is the origin of digestion?
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Or should I say: Why must consciousness have an origin? What is the origin of digestion?
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Could you provide a summary, please?
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Count Lucanor wrote: September 18th, 2021, 7:43 pm Or should I say: Why must consciousness have an origin? What is the origin of digestion?
An answer to the following question would provide an answer to your question:

Is consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?

When consciousness is to be considered a manifestation of the origin of life and the origin of life is to be established to be 'origin of existence itself' (pure meaning), then the concept 'origin of existence' can be said to be of substance as much as one considers it's own consciousness experience to be of substance and it would imply that consciousness would find it's origin in the 'origin of existence itself'.
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Sy Borg wrote: September 18th, 2021, 10:17 pm Could you provide a summary, please?
1) applicability of consideration and potential plausibility of new theories of consciousness that pose an origin external from the life form

2) urgency and importance of philosophical exploration of the external-origin consciousness theory type because it can enable machines and AI to become actually alive

I understand that my OP contains a lot of text. I shared it mostly for the purpose of a sort of archive function, while the content may be of interest and provide a lead for a discussion.

For example, I addressed the following:

1) Quantum Theory of Consciousness or Neutrino-biological cell theory of life
1.1) What are neutrinos?
1.2) A direct link to the origin of existence in neutrino-biological cell interaction and 'why' consciousness is a logical result

2) External origin for consciousness: plausible or not?
2.1) Intelligence in lower life forms: the validity of teleonomy to explain away intelligence in simple life
The idea that consciousness is a physical process of the nervous systems, i.e. that consciousness is produced by the brain, is profoundly different from the idea that the origin of consciousness is external from the individual life form. This provides a hint that mere philosophical consideration should be able to provide argumentative weight for the validity of either idea.
3) Origin of life (logical reasoning to explain the origin)

4) History of humanity’s perspective on life (why humans may have a skewed perspective that hinders them to understand life)

Summary: a case has been made for plausibility of theories that pose an external origin of consciousness (external from the life form)
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psyreporter wrote: September 19th, 2021, 5:41 am
Count Lucanor wrote: September 18th, 2021, 7:43 pm Or should I say: Why must consciousness have an origin? What is the origin of digestion?
An answer to the following question would provide an answer to your question:

Is consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?

When consciousness is to be considered a manifestation of the origin of life and the origin of life is to be established to be 'origin of existence itself' (pure meaning), then the concept 'origin of existence' can be said to be of substance as much as one considers it's own consciousness experience to be of substance and it would imply that consciousness would find it's origin in the 'origin of existence itself'.
Actually, it doesn't provide an answer. It links consciousness to something else, but it is still asking for the origin of consciousness. My question is why me must assume an "origin" or why the matter is about origins? Or what is entailed by the concept "origin of consciousness". We are looking at a phenomenon and when you talk about its origin, do you mean: its cause?
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Count Lucanor wrote: September 19th, 2021, 10:49 am
psyreporter wrote: September 19th, 2021, 5:41 amIs consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?
Actually, it doesn't provide an answer. It links consciousness to something else, but it is still asking for the origin of consciousness. My question is why me must assume an "origin" or why the matter is about origins? Or what is entailed by the concept "origin of consciousness". We are looking at a phenomenon and when you talk about its origin, do you mean: its cause?
Origin is simply a synonym for 'why' something exists. In the case of consciousness, one has conscious experience as reason to consider consciousness to be of substance (or else one wouldn't be able to ask 'why' one is conscious, would be the idea).

Origin can be a cause, but doesn't need to be so. A theory or logic can fulfill the question "What is the origin?" as well. When the origin is to be established something that precedes physical reality, then it may require metaphysical theory to provide an explanation.

Using the question "what is the origin?" provides more clarity than "why does it exist?" because the origin question requests an explanation relative to 'awareness' (one's conscious experience), which in the case of consciousness is better at directing towards a usable answer.

Consciousness and life are evidently something of which it can be said that it is of substance within the scope of physical reality (one can argue that the quality 'being alive' or 'conscious experience' cannot be denied to exist). The question: "what is the origin? (of it entering into awareness)" is therefor relevant.
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psyreporter wrote: September 19th, 2021, 5:41 am Is consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?
Probably, yes; many things. I can see consciousness as (maybe) being an attribute of some living things, "of life", but I can see no direct connection at all to the origin of life...? 🤔
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psyreporter wrote: September 19th, 2021, 3:41 pm
Count Lucanor wrote: September 19th, 2021, 10:49 am
psyreporter wrote: September 19th, 2021, 5:41 amIs consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?
Actually, it doesn't provide an answer. It links consciousness to something else, but it is still asking for the origin of consciousness. My question is why me must assume an "origin" or why the matter is about origins? Or what is entailed by the concept "origin of consciousness". We are looking at a phenomenon and when you talk about its origin, do you mean: its cause?
Origin is simply a synonym for 'why' something exists. In the case of consciousness, one has conscious experience as reason to consider consciousness to be of substance (or else one wouldn't be able to ask 'why' one is conscious, would be the idea).

Origin can be a cause, but doesn't need to be so. A theory or logic can fulfill the question "What is the origin?" as well. When the origin is to be established something that precedes physical reality, then it may require metaphysical theory to provide an explanation.

Using the question "what is the origin?" provides more clarity than "why does it exist?" because the origin question requests an explanation relative to 'awareness' (one's conscious experience), which in the case of consciousness is better at directing towards a usable answer.

Consciousness and life are evidently something of which it can be said that it is of substance within the scope of physical reality (one can argue that the quality 'being alive' or 'conscious experience' cannot be denied to exist). The question: "what is the origin? (of it entering into awareness)" is therefor relevant.
It seems that we should think of this 'why' something exists as "what makes something to exist" or "what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for something to exist", being in this case consciousness that something. In the end, when you look for origins you're actually looking for causes: the natural cause or causes of the existence of consciousness. This is also different from trying to find out what consciousness is, what it is made of, so that a thing can be said to have that property. Although there is obviously still a lot of problems to solve concerning these inquiries, we can be pretty sure the answers cannot bypass the fact that consciousness has only been found in living physical bodies.

In any case, I don't think logic can solve by itself problems of existence.
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Pattern-chaser wrote: September 20th, 2021, 11:33 am
psyreporter wrote: September 19th, 2021, 5:41 am Is consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?
Probably, yes; many things. I can see consciousness as (maybe) being an attribute of some living things, "of life", but I can see no direct connection at all to the origin of life...? 🤔
What is life else than what it is said to be within the scope of experience? Is conscious experience not at most a manifestation of life-as-life in a pure form?
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Count Lucanor wrote: September 20th, 2021, 11:44 pmIt seems that we should think of this 'why' something exists as "what makes something to exist" or "what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for something to exist", being in this case consciousness that something. In the end, when you look for origins you're actually looking for causes: the natural cause or causes of the existence of consciousness. This is also different from trying to find out what consciousness is, what it is made of, so that a thing can be said to have that property. Although there is obviously still a lot of problems to solve concerning these inquiries, we can be pretty sure the answers cannot bypass the fact that consciousness has only been found in living physical bodies.

In any case, I don't think logic can solve by itself problems of existence.
At question would be whether that is so, since isn't it wonderful that the Universe has a structure that performs in such a way that life is possible?

Basic logic has indicated that simple functions that originate from life, are to be considered evidence of life and obligate one to explain the origin of life. Simple functions, for example the structure of the Universe, cannot be accepted as 'just is' without addressing the question why it exists (what the explanatory origin is).

What lays at the basis of the structure of the Universe is the qualia patternness and by logic, a pattern is bound by observation/perception. A pattern is not possible without observation/perception. This would explain that the origin of the Universe (physical reality) is logically the source of life (life's origin), with consciousness being a logical manifestation of the pure form of the origin of the Universe (pure perception) that seeks itself (its origin) because what precedes an individual on a fundamental level lays beyond it from the perspective of an individual.

With regard logic being unable to solve the problems of existence. I am not certain whether that would be so. Do you have an argumentative foundation for the idea why it would be impossible that logic is able to explain existence?
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psyreporter wrote: September 19th, 2021, 5:41 am Is consciousness possibly anything other than a manifestation of the origin of life?
Pattern-chaser wrote: September 20th, 2021, 11:33 am Probably, yes; many things. I can see consciousness as (maybe) being an attribute of some living things, "of life", but I can see no direct connection at all to the origin of life...? 🤔
psyreporter wrote: September 21st, 2021, 10:34 am Is conscious experience not at most a manifestation of life-as-life in a pure form?
No, not that I can see. What makes you think this is so?
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March 2023

The Unfakeable Code®

The Unfakeable Code®
by Tony Jeton Selimi
April 2023

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
by Alan Watts
May 2023

Killing Abel

Killing Abel
by Michael Tieman
June 2023

Reconfigurement: Reconfiguring Your Life at Any Stage and Planning Ahead

Reconfigurement: Reconfiguring Your Life at Any Stage and Planning Ahead
by E. Alan Fleischauer
July 2023

First Survivor: The Impossible Childhood Cancer Breakthrough

First Survivor: The Impossible Childhood Cancer Breakthrough
by Mark Unger
August 2023

Predictably Irrational

Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
September 2023

Artwords

Artwords
by Beatriz M. Robles
November 2023

Fireproof Happiness: Extinguishing Anxiety & Igniting Hope

Fireproof Happiness: Extinguishing Anxiety & Igniting Hope
by Dr. Randy Ross
December 2023

Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes

Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes
by Ali Master
February 2024

2022 Philosophy Books of the Month

Emotional Intelligence At Work

Emotional Intelligence At Work
by Richard M Contino & Penelope J Holt
January 2022

Free Will, Do You Have It?

Free Will, Do You Have It?
by Albertus Kral
February 2022

My Enemy in Vietnam

My Enemy in Vietnam
by Billy Springer
March 2022

2X2 on the Ark

2X2 on the Ark
by Mary J Giuffra, PhD
April 2022

The Maestro Monologue

The Maestro Monologue
by Rob White
May 2022

What Makes America Great

What Makes America Great
by Bob Dowell
June 2022

The Truth Is Beyond Belief!

The Truth Is Beyond Belief!
by Jerry Durr
July 2022

Living in Color

Living in Color
by Mike Murphy
August 2022 (tentative)

The Not So Great American Novel

The Not So Great American Novel
by James E Doucette
September 2022

Mary Jane Whiteley Coggeshall, Hicksite Quaker, Iowa/National Suffragette And Her Speeches

Mary Jane Whiteley Coggeshall, Hicksite Quaker, Iowa/National Suffragette And Her Speeches
by John N. (Jake) Ferris
October 2022

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All
by Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
November 2022

The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity

The Smartest Person in the Room
by Christian Espinosa
December 2022

2021 Philosophy Books of the Month

The Biblical Clock: The Untold Secrets Linking the Universe and Humanity with God's Plan

The Biblical Clock
by Daniel Friedmann
March 2021

Wilderness Cry: A Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe

Wilderness Cry
by Dr. Hilary L Hunt M.D.
April 2021

Fear Not, Dream Big, & Execute: Tools To Spark Your Dream And Ignite Your Follow-Through

Fear Not, Dream Big, & Execute
by Jeff Meyer
May 2021

Surviving the Business of Healthcare: Knowledge is Power

Surviving the Business of Healthcare
by Barbara Galutia Regis M.S. PA-C
June 2021

Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure

Winning the War on Cancer
by Sylvie Beljanski
July 2021

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream
by Dr Frank L Douglas
August 2021

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your Buts

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your Buts
by Mark L. Wdowiak
September 2021

The Preppers Medical Handbook

The Preppers Medical Handbook
by Dr. William W Forgey M.D.
October 2021

Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress: A Practical Guide

Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress
by Dr. Gustavo Kinrys, MD
November 2021

Dream For Peace: An Ambassador Memoir

Dream For Peace
by Dr. Ghoulem Berrah
December 2021