Quantum zeno effect (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 15:15 (4106 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: For some reason, the second quote got lost when I copied and pasted my post last night. It's rich enough to keep researchers busy for decades, and it all makes perfect sense. For me she has revolutionized evolutionary thinking.
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> The evolutionary antecedent of the nervous system is "microbial consciousness." In my description of the origin of the eukaryotic cell via bacterial cell merger, the components fused via symbiogenesis are already "conscious" entities. I have reconstructed an aspect of the origin of the neurotubule system by a hypothesis that can be directly tested. The idea is that the system of microtubules that became neurotubules has as its origin once-independent eubacteria of a very specific kind. Nothing, I claim, has ever been lost without a trace in evolution. The remains of the evolutionary process, the sequence that occurred that produced Cajal's neuron and other cells, live today. 
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> http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/929/1/55-Two sides of the coin are consciousness-containing cells or consciously- directed cells. Hard to tell which unless you recognize the obvious teleology in the direction of complexity in evolution.