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Conjecture Re Memory, Sentience and Consciousness
February 28, 2007 by Dov Henis, 2 years 38 weeks ago
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Dov Henis
"Memory, Sentience and Consciousness"
24 01 2007 (in Hypography forum).
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1&p=174
I.
Sentience = state of elementary or undifferenciated consciousness as distinguished from perception and thought. (Merriam-Webster)
Consciousness = the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself and/or of an external object, state, or fact.(Merriam-Webster)
I suggest that Immunity is based on most efficient Memory, that ALL forms of life possess the attribute of Sentience, and that from the least towards the most evolved life forms Sentience has been gradually evolving into ever more complex Consciousness.
II.
Three relevant paras from my postings elsewhere few years ago:
(A) Sentience was a functional capability of the earliest individual genes and has evolved into a more complex capability of genes commune cooperatives, genomes. In normal ambient state, it is switched-on or not and shared-or- not and leads to reaction or not depending on the location-tasks of the cells in which dwell the genes communes.
(B) All organisms, including single-celled, have consciousness. It is the complexity of consciousness that varies from organism to organism. The baseline of consciousness is sensing mechanisms plus consequent and/or accompanying reaction processes.
(C) The Immune System is common to ALL organisms. In its scope and features in humans and other animals it is prevalent and common also in plants. Its baseline is Memory, which by analogy with Immunity leads me to conjecture that Memory too involves production and storage of protein tags stored somewhere in the organism as a record of a sensed matter and also - as in humans - of a thought formulated, read or heard, negotiated by some certain neurons.
Conjecturing,
Dov Henis