CONSCIOUSNESS

168 4. Physical and Biological Sciences
advantage gained from the structurally coded hydrogen-bonding packets, naturally, would
yield a synergetic help in optimizing the life-sustaining energy harvesting occurring in the respiration
reaction. This simplified analog math trial theory supports an interesting and growing
array of visualizations. The words fit. The imagery fits. The trial theory carries the load. The
persistent formation of wave after wave of slightly varying structurally coded ordered water
layers nestle nicely to fill the so-called mind-body gap. Minimally, hydrogen-bonding ties the
feel of things together. To implement longer term memory, structurally coded stacks of water
molecules that would be in high concentration within an active cell would naturally become
incorporated in bound water layers in newly forming protein matrices, which research shows
does occur during in memory formation and strengthening, and which (the protein formation)
may be disrupted by certain anesthetics. As one may naturally suspect, all quales and qualia
turn out to be place-holding synonyms for the replicating stacks and sequences persistently
forming in the internal analog math. The reader can likely already use this novel trial theory as
a tool to visualize and rationalize other scenarios and so-called problem areas in the emerging
science of consciousness. Kinesthetic and visually challenged learners may benefit by exploring
and using a simple, hand-held quantum gravitational learning tool available at www.magtet.com
The author would like to express his gratitude and appreciation for the contributions
and the leadership roles of Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose, David Chalmers, Gary Pollack,
and also of all the many participants of jcs-online@yahoogroups.com. Given in memory
of Wandsqueen, Karen Gilbert. P10
244 Consciousness in Evolution – Sketch for a New Model Donald Padelford
(Integral Review, Seattle, WA)
It is hypothesized that hierarchically negentropic systems (defined herein), including organisms,
are associated with partially non-local information/probability fields which, a) entail
or express interiority, b) engender “entangled learning” with similar negentropic systems, and
c) cause otherwise random processes, including mutation in biotic systems, to become somewhat
non-random. These effects, which are believed to be driven by quantum interactions,
modify those identified with the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. A series of tenets, or broad
organizing principles related to such systems and their associated fields, are enumerated. An
empirical test which could potentially falsify certain aspects of the hypothesis is given. --- (1.
Evolution is a phenomenon that takes place in hierarchically negentropic systems in general,
and in life forms in particular. (2. Hierarchically negentropic systems are negentropic systems
made up of, or constituted from, negentropic sub-systems, which themselves are made up of
negentropic sub-sub-systems, etc. (3. Hierarchically negentropic systems are characterized
by interiority. (4. Interiority is that aspect of hierarchically negentropic systems which, if
concentrated sufficiently, results in consciousness. (5. Thus matter doesn’t create consciousness.
Rather highly evolved hierarchically negentropic systems (ie advanced life forms)
manifest consciousness. (6. The tendency of hierarchically negentropic systems to become
more negentropic, with more layers of hierarchy over time constitutes evolution as seen from
“outside.” (7. As seen from “inside,” interiority seeks to increase itself, which is to say, to
become conscious, or more conscious. (8. Interiority is, to some extent, non-local. (9. In particular
similar (or identical) hierarchically negentropic systems share a degree of interiority.
This is the view from “inside” such systems. (10. The view from “outside” is that hierarchically
negentropic systems probabilistically tend to adopt, or conform to, solutions found or
chanced upon by similar systems. (11. The partial non-locality of hierarchically negentropic
systems exists in terms of both time and space. (12. The deeper the hierarchy in hierarchically
negentropic systems, the more non-locality is evident. (13. Lower levels of the hierarchy in
hierarchically negentropic systems have causal affects on higher levels and vice versa. (14.
Also, causal affects operate from exterior to interior and interior to exterior. (15. As reductionism
only fully recognizes the former affects (lower to higher and exterior to interior), it is
wrong, or at least incomplete. (16. Idealism, while not a major force in today’s world, makes
the opposite mistake. (17. Up-to-down and in-to-out causality are, to some extent, the same
thing, since systems with deeper levels of hierarchical negentropy embody greater degrees of
interiority. (18. Likewise down-to-up causality is, to some extent, the same thing as out-to-in