[-empyre-] embodied fractal consciousness

[david jhave johnston <jhave2@gmail.com>]

The previous exchange concerning "intelligence inherent in our bodies"
and "fractal theories of intelligence" fit very well with my own
ruminations on consciousness. It seems that appraisals occur at every
level (micro, meso and macroscopic) and the contemporary
cognitive-science quest for the neural correlates of consciousness
(Koch & Crick, Tononi & Edelman, Freeman, Panksepp) misses a more
holistic viewpoint which implicates consciousness as inherent to
matter (invoking a sort of animism based on scientific evidence).

Koch, Tononi, Fodor and Freeman would probably dismiss such a
suggestion as improbable and unprovable; yet, for me it seems
self-evident. At all scales of existence, (cellular, molecular,
universal) activity involves awareness (the differentiation of sodium
ion channels is a useful example) which involves appraisal and even if
it is not autonoetic in the form we conventionally find in human
cognition seems to be conscious.

respects
jhave