UCL biochemist Nick Lane suggests consciousness is created in the electrical potential on the membrane of mitochondria.
Referencing the work of Luca Turin, he argues that while it’s hard to pin down what consciousness is and what creatures have it, we can start with an agreement about the effects of anaesthetics – i.e. the loss of consciousness.
Lane then explores why mitochondria might be so important to consciousness, arguing their simplest functions in some sense comprise a subjective shift, converting the outside world into an internal state.
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Consciousness certainly isn’t *other* than electrical activity on a cellular level. But it isn’t *merely* that. I.E. beware reductionism.
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UCL biochemist Nick Lane suggests consciousness is created in the electrical potential on the membrane of mitochondria.
Referencing the work of Luca Turin, he argues that while it’s hard to pin down what consciousness is and what creatures have it, we can start with an agreement about the effects of anaesthetics – i.e. the loss of consciousness.
Lane then explores why mitochondria might be so important to consciousness, arguing their simplest functions in some sense comprise a subjective shift, converting the outside world into an internal state.
Consciousness certainly isn’t *other* than electrical activity on a cellular level. But it isn’t *merely* that. I.E. beware reductionism.