?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=%22Funda-Mentality%22%3A+is+the+conscious+mind+subtly+linked+to+a+basic+level+of+the+universe%3F&rft.creator=Hameroff%2C+Stuart+R.&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Age-old+battle+lines+over+the+puzzling+nature+of+mental+experience+are+shaping+a+modern+resurgence+in+the+study+of+consciousness.+On+one+side+are+the+long-dominant+%22physicalists%22+who+view+consciousness+as+an+emergent+property+of+the+brain's+neural+networks.+On+the+alternative%2C+rebellious+side+are+those+who+see+a+necessary+added+ingredient%3A+proto-conscious+experience+intrinsic+to+reality%2C+perhaps+understandable+through+modern+physics+(panpsychists%2C+pan-experientialists%2C+%22funda-mentalists%22).+It+is+argued+here+that+the+physicalist+premise+alone+is+unable+to+solve+completely+the+difficult+issues+of+consciousness+and+that+to+do+so+will+require+supplemental+panpsychist%2Fpan-experiential+philosophy+expressed+in+modern+physics.+In+one+scheme+proto-conscious+experience+is+a+basic+property+of+physical+reality+accessible+to+a+quantum+process+associated+with+brain+activity.+The+proposed+process+is+Roger+Penrose's+%22objective+reduction%22+(OR)%2C+a+self-organizing+%22collapse%22+of+the+quantum+wave+function+related+to+instability+at+the+most+basic+level+of+space-time+geometry.+In+the+Penrose-+Hameroff+model+of+%22orchestrated+objective+reduction%22+(Orch+OR)%2C+OR+quantum+computation+occurs+in+cytoskeletal+microtubules+within+the+brain's+neurons.+The+basic+thesis+is+that+consciousness+involves+brain+activities+coupled+to+a+self-organizing+ripples+in+fundamental+reality.&rft.date=1998-04&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F369%2F1%2Ftics.html&rft.identifier=++Hameroff%2C+Stuart+R.++(1998)+%22Funda-Mentality%22%3A+is+the+conscious+mind+subtly+linked+to+a+basic+level+of+the+universe%3F++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F369%2F