Consciousness-Based Evolution
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2023
Book
Hardback
178 pages
978-1-032-19701-2 (ISBN)
Description
Consciousness is the key to understanding human existence. Many have attempted to determine the fundamental nature of consciousness based on deductive reasoning. In contrast to that, Consciousness-Based Evolution has exploited empiric evidence for the evolution of physiology from the unicell to man based on cell-cell communication as the origin of consciousness, each intermediary step representing an innate effort to maintain homeostasis by harnessing the energy flow initiated by The Big Bang. By tracing vertebrate evolution as development and phylogeny, focusing on specific emergent steps using a Bayesian approach, individual traits can be seen as exaptations of earlier ways in which existential threats were resolved over the course of evolution. You, the readers, are the beneficiary of those insights.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic and General
Illustrations
14 s/w Abbildungen, 7 farbige Abbildungen, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 6 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 12 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 farbige Zeichnungen
2 Line drawings, color; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, color; 1 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, color; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-19701-2 (9781032197012)
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Person
John S. Torday is a Developmental Physiologist. He received his Master's (1971) and PhD (1974) degrees from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He subsequently received Post-Doctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Reproductive Biology (1976). He has previously been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School (1976-91) and the University of Maryland (1991-98), and is currently on the University of California-Los Angeles faculty (1998-present). He is the Director of the Henry L. Guenther Laboratory for Cell-Molecular Biology, Harbor-UCLA. He has been independently funded as a biomedical researcher for 50 years, focused on lung development, having published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles. Upon further reflection, he has devised a novel theory of evolution based on physiology over the last 25 years, having published 9 monographs on the subject.
Content
Evolutionary Basis for Consciousness, Subconsciousness and Unconsciousness. Physiology as Consciousness. It's Epigenetics 'All the Way Down'. Ontogeny, Phylogeny and Cellular Energy Flows for Evolution. Cellular Evolution of Language as Quantum Energy. Fibonacci Numbers, Self-Reference, Self-Organization and Autopoiesis. Jung's Synchronicity, Unicellular Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics and Epigenetic Inheritance. Life is a Simulacrum of Cosmologic Physics, Mathematics, Art, Music. Morphological Forms Emerging from the Evolutionary Process are Topologies. On the Quantum Origin and Nature of Consciousness. The Holism of Cosmology and Consciousness. Evolution, Gravity, and the Topology of Consciousness. Cellular Evolution and the Flow of Energy. Fractal Properties of Physiology-How and Why. Embodied Quantum Entanglement. If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On..... Implicate and Explicate Orders as Unconscious and Conscious. The Cell as a Mobius Strip. Two Paranormal Psychologists Walk into a Bar.