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CONSCIOUSNESS & REALITY 2024-25 SERIES
Inaugural Colloquium by Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at the Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution, University College London, delivered on 11/13/2024

DESCRIPTION
As an evolutionary biologist, I am a realist: I see feelings as physical processes that reflect, albeit ambiguously, how an organism is doing in relation to its environment. Feelings such as pain have little information content and do not obviously relate to information processing in neural networks. Recent work on anaesthetics suggests they dissipate electron spin polarization generated by chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) in respiration. I will argue that local electromagnetic fields from mitochondria produce a physical state corresponding to feelings. Mitochondria derive from free-living bacteria, and I will outline why electromagnetic fields could have utility in bacterial cells.

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The Consciousness & Reality (C&R) colloquium series promotes interdisciplinary investigations on mind, cognition, consciousness, and the nature of reality. All recordings from this series are available at www.imics.org/seminars.