"369","\"Funda-Mentality\": is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?","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 \"physicalists\" who view consciousness as an emergent property of the brain's neural networks. On the alternative, rebellious side are those who see a necessary added ingredient: proto-conscious experience intrinsic to reality, perhaps understandable through modern physics (panpsychists, pan-experientialists, \"funda-mentalists\"). 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/pan-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 \"objective reduction\" (OR), a self-organizing \"collapse\" of the quantum wave function related to instability at the most basic level of space-time geometry. In the Penrose- Hameroff model of \"orchestrated objective reduction\" (Orch OR), 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.","http://cogprints.org/369/","Hameroff, Stuart R.","UNSPECIFIED"," Hameroff, Stuart R. (1998) \"Funda-Mentality\": is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe? [Journal (Paginated)] ","","1998-04"