Dear George Ellis
>>>>>> I claim that some sort of consciousness exists also in unicellular creatures. I claim for panpsychism. What is your opinion?
>>>I don't understand it.
Panpsychism is defended also by Tononi and Koch, therefore it is not an unimportant theory. My variant of panpsychism is that the basic elements of consciousness are collapses of wave functions. This model agrees with Zurek's interpretation of quantum mechanics.
At the same time, it is not easy to imagine, that some materialistic world would exist where consciousness absolutely does not exist. Matter and it properties as touch would have lost sense if no consciousness had not existed. It is similarly, as space would have lost its meaning if no matter had not existed (a link to these my claims is in my essay).
I read your link http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1108.5261. In your corollary 3 you wrote "Corollary 3: generically, living cells will not exhibit quantum behaviour (because there are thousands of feedback loops in a living cell);"
At the same time you know quantum biology, because you cited Lloyd. (I cited the same link, [11]). We know still quantum sense of smell and sense of earth magnetic field by birds. Can you write more about quantum biology? I never found how Tegmark's paper https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9907009 agrees with quantum biology? But decoherence times in sense of earth magnetic field are approximately micro seconds, much larger, as Tegmark said.
It is also fair that you mentioned testing of your level theory with Leggett experiment. I wished to mentioned you about this.
But, your theory is bad accrding to Ockham razor, because it needs new parameters, a lot of them.
>>> I am not against the influence of gravity. It just is not important in the way that neurons function.
I think that only that gravity defines nature of time and indirectly nature of panpsychism.
About top-down causation I agree with you a lot. Maybe some software for artificial life could visualize this. One basic example of top-down causation is also quantum entanglement, because information is included also in a connection between two particles, not only in the particles themselves.
But, existence of top-down causation is not in contradiction with quantum consciousness.
About your division of physics and biology I think that the essence is that both are informatics, or as simulation in some computer. For instance, using physics 200 years ago, one meter was typically clear physics, not math. But, by physics known nowadays, one meter can be described as multiple of Planck's distance, thus it is dimensionless, thus so physics can become math.
But I agree, that the problem of interpretation of quantum mechanics is a separation of micro and macro worlds, but my proposal is panpsychism. Probably there are other persons who suggest such models, because this is model which is fall in eyes.
You also claim that life is known only in biological level, nowhere else. This is true, but this not prevent to introduce panpsychism, which is not equal to "panlife".
I disagree also with Feynman, as you cited him in your paper. Philosophical models enable testing or at least they can be estimated by Ockham razor, and nature needs very sharp Ockham razor. Scientist today to much follow to Feynman view, they think that they are objective, but at the same time they have some model behind, for which they think that it is correct. The same is valid also for Feynman.
My essay
Best regards, Janko Kokosar
