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Evolution, gravity, and the topology of consciousness

Journal

PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 174, Issue -, Pages 50-54

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2022.06.005

Keywords

Consciousness; Evolution; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Cell -cell communication; Topology; Micelle; First principles of physiology; Exaptation

Funding

  1. NIH [HL055268]

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This article discusses the origin and development of consciousness, arguing that consciousness is formed through cell-cell communications and gradually acquires specific fundamental properties during the process of evolution. The mechanism of cellular evolution and its relationship with mathematics are explained, highlighting the significance of cells in the existence of consciousness.
It has previously been hypothesized that consciousness is the aggregate of our evolutionary history, forged by ontogeny and phylogeny via cell-cell communications. In an on-going effort to identify the serial pre-adaptations that gave rise to consciousness, certain fundamental properties of the emerging cell are addressed herein. Evolution is topologic because it began as a phase transition caused by gravity attracting lipid molecules, spontaneously forming micelles submersed in the ocean that covered the primordial Earth, forming a surface boundary between the exterior Cosmos and the interior of micelles. Such protocells comply with the First Principles of Physiology-negative entropy, chemiosmosis and homeostasis-the first two principles being deter-ministic, the last being probabilistic, bestowing them with far more than just random chance. The mechanism of cellular evolution is based on exaptations of sequentially earlier and earlier genetic traits, working in reverse from present-day physiology all the way back to the unicellular state, which is homologous with mathematical 'knots'. Ironically, that relationship is evidence for the ontologic and epistemologic primacy of the cell, which supersedes mathematics and physics as manifestations of the Implicate Order since a conscious cell can conceive of a circle, but an unconscious circle is not able to conceive of a cell.

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