Electricity creates consciousness | Nick Lane

Nick Lane discusses the emergence of consciousness as a result of mitochondrial action.

Might consciousness arise from magnetic fields?

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How could calcium ions rushing through a membrane generate the taste of coffee, the smell of a rose or the feeling of love? Join celebrated biochemist, Nick Lane, as he argues that the deep logic of life is at root an electrical phenomenon.

'His theories are ingenious, breath-taking in scope, and challenging in every sense' - The Guardian

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Nick Lane is an multi-award-winning biochemist and an outstanding science communicator in the origins of life field. He is a Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London and a bestselling author of five critically-acclaimed books on evolutionary biochemistry, selling over 150,000 copies worldwide. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022) explores the elusive chemical logic of life, from genetic information to consciousness.

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