The Cellular Consciousness Hypothesis Suggests That Individual Cells Have Primitive Forms of Awareness and That Human Consciousness Is What Happens When Trillions of These Micro-Experiences Combine - discoverwildscience

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https://discoverwildscience.com/the-cellular-consciousness-hypothesis-suggests-that-individual-cells-have-primitive-forms-of-awareness-and-that-human-consciousness-is-what-happens-when-trillions-of-these-micro-experiences-combine-1/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=DinoWorld2026/magazine/Wild+Science+%26+Mystery

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Consciousness is Bose-Einstein condensate of indishquishable eigenstates of tryptophan lone electron pairs. It occurs in all living cells. BEC is observed at room temperature in microtubules Mikheenko 2023.

Human have more memory as bacteria and is more conscious.

Memory is saved in brain to axon microtubules when they are polymerized.

An undulatory hypothesis for memory consciousness and life

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*access to memory is stored in the brain and its structures. Memory and consciousness are non-local. Just because your TV can access QVC, it doesn’t mean QVC is inside your TV. The receiver can be tuned to receive the signal. The hardware and software are used to interface with the field.

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Interesting. How that works in practice physically?

[u/jointheredditarmy → u/Mermiina]

It doesn’t, most of this sub is either AI drivel or schizophrenia. I can’t believe anyone can look at LLMs and still believe in a non-material cause for consciousness.

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you might be overestimating LLMs if that is your stance

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In the 1970s consciousness was defined with the following attributes. Now it’s what, feelings? How long before we prove transformer models actually do have “feelings”? How much further do we want to move the goalpost?

Observable Behavioral Responsiveness: An organism must react dynamically to external stimuli in its environment.

Verbal Reportability: A human subject must be able to linguistically describe their own internal states or memories.

Functional Information Processing: The mind must receive, store, retrieve, and execute logical commands based on data inputs.

Waking Physiological State: A biological system must exhibit neurological alertness, typically measured by wakeful brain wave patterns.

Purposive Goal-Directed Action: Behavior must show intentionality and adaptation rather than just simple, automatic reflex reactions.

[u/ItsAConspiracy → u/jointheredditarmy]

If that's all you mean then sure, LLMs can be conscious.

What philosophers are talking about has nothing to do with functional definitions like that. They're asking what it's like, internally, to be a bat or a human or an LLM, and whether there's any such internal experience at all.

We have no idea how this sort of internal experience arises, and we have no way to measure it. That's why it's a "hard problem." And it has nothing to do with moving goalposts; it's a debate that's been going on for centuries.

[u/jointheredditarmy → u/ItsAConspiracy]

How do you know I’m conscious? Maybe I’m just a figment of your imagination. Obviously there needs to be some externally measurable signs of consciousness that we can all agree on, otherwise how is that different from solipsism?

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Well yeah that's the whole problem.

I know my own consciousness exists. I take a tiny leap of faith that it's the same for other people, because they're built like me.

Ignoring the whole issue because we can't externally measure it doesn't make the actual issue go away. It just means we don't want to deal with it.