The Sentient Cell : The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness [1 ed.] 9780198873211, 9780198873259
All species, extant and extinct, from the simplest unicellular prokaryotes to humans, have an existential consciousness.
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English Pages 288 Year 2023
Table of contents :
Preface
Prologue: Setting the Stage
Abbreviations
1.The Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC)
2.It’s Cells All the Way Down
3.What Is Life? The Vitalism–Mechanism Debate and the Origins of Life
4.Emergence and Evolution of Cells
5.The Structural and Bioelectrical Basis of Cells
6.The Biophysical Basis of Cellular Sentience
7.The Biological Information Cycle: The Terms of Consciousness
8.Genes Are Tools of Intelligent Cells: Biological and Evolutionary Development in the 21st Century
9.The N-Space Episenome: Life as Information Management
10.Anaesthetics and Their Cellular Targets
11.Plant Sentience: Linking Cellular Consciousness to the Cognitive and Behavioural Features of Plant Life
12.Issues of Ethics and Morality: Entailments of the CBC
Appendix I: An Exercise in Lexicography: Defining(?) Consciousness
Appendix II: Glossary of Technical Terms in the Biological Sciences
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Prologue: Setting the Stage
Abbreviations
1.The Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC)
2.It’s Cells All the Way Down
3.What Is Life? The Vitalism–Mechanism Debate and the Origins of Life
4.Emergence and Evolution of Cells
5.The Structural and Bioelectrical Basis of Cells
6.The Biophysical Basis of Cellular Sentience
7.The Biological Information Cycle: The Terms of Consciousness
8.Genes Are Tools of Intelligent Cells: Biological and Evolutionary Development in the 21st Century
9.The N-Space Episenome: Life as Information Management
10.Anaesthetics and Their Cellular Targets
11.Plant Sentience: Linking Cellular Consciousness to the Cognitive and Behavioural Features of Plant Life
12.Issues of Ethics and Morality: Entailments of the CBC
Appendix I: An Exercise in Lexicography: Defining(?) Consciousness
Appendix II: Glossary of Technical Terms in the Biological Sciences
Bibliography
Index
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