Cellular Basis Consciousness #2 Reber's Q/A - Student's Resource, transcript of highlights.

Prof. Reber's insightful Cellular Basis of Consciousness presents a key understanding regarding the actual physical facts surrounding the origins of our human consciousness.  Metaphysics-enthusiasts will sniff & resent & ignore til the cows come home.  Still, here it is.  The answers are in Evolution!   

If you "believe" in Science., you'll want to learn about Prof Reber's suggestions.

Professor Arthur Reber's Question and Answer Session

The “Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC)”

Reber’s 2018, Institut des sciences cognitives - UQAM presentation.

{Part one, visit The "Cellular Basis of Consciousness" proposal - A Student's Introduction to Dr. Arthur Reber's CBC}

A challenging audience, Professor Arthur Reber rises to the occasion.

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I’m posting this transcript of highlights from Professor Reber's talk, because I’m stunned at how little attention Reber’s "Cellular Basis of Consciousness" conception has received since Reber started sharing this with the academic community over seven years ago. 

I believe the profoundly insightful Cellular Basis of Consciousness holds the key to understanding the actual physical facts regarding the source of our human consciousness.  

The "Cellular Basis of Consciousness" proposal - A Student's Introduction to Dr. Arthur Reber's CBC

Recently I finished listening to Nick Lane’s “Transformer,” with its significant molecular and mitochondrial insights, and its superb epilogue titled “Self.”  Then, someone at medium.com suggested Arthur Reber, and I was amazed by Dr. Reber's 2018 presentation at Institut des sciences cognitives – UQAM. It seems to me to dovetail with Professor Lane's exposition and it feels to me like I've found the last major missing piece of the puzzle that I've been putting together for myself.

An Introduction to Dr Reber's thoughts: 

The “Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC)”

Reber’s 2018, Institut des sciences cognitives - UQAM presentation.

Where, Nick Lane took me down into our physiology and beyond—into chemistry, then into physics, and the Kreb’s cycle—before bringing it around to mitochondria and some mind-blowing new insights. Finishing with an elegant, most informed deconstruction of the so-called Hard Problem.

Arthur Reber took me back into deep time, origins, and to first functional cells. 

Why did only one type of genetic structure succeed, out of what must have been bazillions of reactions over three billion years? Reber’s “Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC)” points the way to where to look for answers.  I find it is consilient with the treasure trove of scientific information I’ve already accumulated. It’s harmonious with my perceptions as a lifelong deep time Evolution enthusiast. Then Reber finished with an impassioned, spot-on deconstruction, and a resolution, to Philosophy’s misguided meta-physical “Hard Problem”—What’s not to love, I ask?

How we formulate our questions often says more about our own expectations, than about the topic.

I want to state that I believe Arthur Reber’s (who died a couple months ago) presentation deserves to be in the public domain and receive a hell of a lot more exposure than it has received!

Philosophy Embrace Evolutionary Biological Sciences.

  When will philosophy departments catch up and embrace evolutionary biological science?

Random musing on the topic and achieving milestones.  In the spirit of "hope as a survival strategy in hopeless times" - the following started as a letter to a specific person.  I've decided to expand and turn it into a sort of message in a bottle, simply because I felt a need to put it down.  Hope springs eternal and there's the satisfaction in sharing.

Okay so, what the hell, after a great many years of effort, questioning, searching, gathering, learning, I'm feeling good that my line up of experts and lessons is getting pretty complete, for the story I've been striving to visualize.  From the grand deep time Evolutionary overview, down to the mitochondria and Kerb's cycle coursing through our bodies, and even the mineral evolution that needed to occur, before biology had the building blocks to go wild.

I was always a dreamer, watching, and asking why, being raised a science enthusiast, it was easy enough to keep up on the news, and learn profound lessons along the way.  Followed my curiosity and learned within a skilled-labor workingman's life.

I think it was David Attenborough who really focused me with his 1979 tour de force, Life on Earth: A Natural History, step by step retelling of biological evolution, using real life examples, and so on.  In the past couple decades with more time on my hands, I've been amazed and informed by the likes of Hazen, Lane, Sloan-Wilson, Solms, Damasio, Sapolski, Levin, and recently Turin bringing physics (vibrations rather than chemistry) into sense of smell, and now my belated discovery of Arthur Reber with his model of the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC), among many others whom I can't recall off the top of my head right now.  

Bottom up, evolution and science appreciating.  All I know comes from them, digested and reprocessed through my own experiences and perceptions.

Side note, I was saddened to find out that Arthur Reber passed away two months ago, though I was consoled learning about highlights from his amazing 85 years of living.