Consciousness: A Direct Link with Life's Origin?
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Inspired by the Penrose-Hameroff thesis, we are intuitively led to examine an intriguing correspondence of ‘induction’ (by fields), with the complex phenomenon of (metabolism-sustained) consciousness: Did sequences of associated induction patterns in field-susceptible biomatter have simpler beginnings?
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