The Sentient Cell: The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness

All species, extant and extinct, from the simplest unicellular prokaryotes to humans, have an existential consciousness. Without...
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Author: Arthur S. Reber
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Language: English
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The Sentient Cell: The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness by Reber, Arthur S.

The Sentient Cell: The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness

$179.33

The Sentient Cell: The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness

$179.33
Author: Arthur S. Reber
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
All species, extant and extinct, from the simplest unicellular prokaryotes to humans, have an existential consciousness. Without sentience, the first cells that emerged some 4 billion years ago would have been evolutionary dead-ends, unable to survive in the chaotic, dangerous environment in which life first appeared and evolved. In this book, Arthur Reber's theory, the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC), is outlined and distinguished from those models that argue that minds could be instantiated on artificial entities and those that maintain consciousness requires a nervous system.

The CBC framework takes a novel approach to classic topics such as the origin-of-life, philosophy of mind, the role of genes, the impact of cognition, and how biological information is processed by all species. It also calls for a rethinking of a variety of issues including the moral implications of the sentient capacities of all species, how welfare concerns need to be expanded beyond where they currently are, and critically, how all life is intertwined in a coordinated cognitive ecology.

The Sentient Cell explores this revolutionary model, which updates the standard neo-Darwinian framework within which current approaches operate and examines the underlying biomolecular features that are the likely candidates for the "invention" of consciousness and outline their role in cellular life.

Author: Arthur S. Reber, Frantisek Baluska, William Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/05/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780198873211

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