Generates in Bacteria and Other Living Systems

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Journal Biology (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biology

Date 2021 Oct 23

PMID 34681133

Citations 2

Authors

Vic Norris

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Abstract

The relevance of bacteria to subjective experiences or is underappreciated. Here, I make four proposals. Firstly, living systems traverse sequences of states that determine their behaviour; these states result from , which depends on connectivity-based competition between a process and a process, whereby elements in the active state at time are chosen between the elements in the active state at time and those elements in the developing state. Secondly, bacteria should help us link the mental to the physical world given that bacteria were here first, are highly complex, influence animal behaviour and dominate the Earth. Thirdly, the operation of competitive coherence to generate active states in bacteria, brains and other living systems is inseparable from . Fourthly, these become particularly important to the generation of active states in the highest levels of living systems, namely, the ecosystem and planetary levels.

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