The Sentient Cell

The Sentient Cell

by Arthur S. ReberFrantisek Baluska and William Miller
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 17/09/2023

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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.

ISBN:
9780198873259
9780198873259
Category:
Intelligence & reasoning
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
17-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
William Miller

William Miller is a television producer and media executive. For a decade he ran one of the UK's biggest independent production companies before partnering with his old friend Nigella Lawson to produce her critically acclaimed cooking shows as well as build and manage her global brand business.

After that he then went on to be head of talent at BBC Worldwide where he partnered with other well known names like Louis Theroux, Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer to help build their brands, businesses, and develop their TV shows. In 2014, he set up a TV development business called Raconteur as well as taking time out to write this, his first book.

In 2009 William returned to Gloucester Crescent where he now lives, three doors from his parents, with his wife and two teenage daughters.

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