Consciousness: A Direct Link with Life's Origin?

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential connection between consciousness and the origin of life, inspired by the Penrose-Hameroff thesis, suggesting that induction patterns in biomatter may have simpler beginnings.

Contribution

It proposes a novel hypothesis linking induction phenomena in biomatter to the emergence of consciousness and life's origins, inspired by quantum and field theories.

Findings

Induction patterns may be fundamental to consciousness

Biomatter's induction sequences could have simpler origins

Supports a field-based view of life's emergence

Abstract

Inspired by the Penrose-Hameroff thesis, we are intuitively led to examine an intriguing correspondence of 'induction' (by fields), with the complex phenomenon of (metabolism-sustained) consciousness: Did sequences of associated induction patterns in field-susceptible biomatter have simpler beginnings?