%0 Journal Article
%T Consciousness in Evolution: Sketch for a New Model ¨C A Speculation
%A Donald F. Padelford
%J Integral Review
%D 2009
%I ARINA, Inc.
%X It is hypothesized that hierarchically negentropic systems (defined herein),including organisms, are associated with partially non-local information/probability fieldswhich, a) entail or express interiority, b) engender ˇ°entangled learningˇ± with similarnegentropic systems, and c) cause otherwise random processes, including mutation inbiotic systems, to become somewhat non-random. These effects, which are believed to bedriven by quantum interactions, modify those identified with the Modern EvolutionarySynthesis. A series of tenets, or broad organizing principles, related to such systems andtheir associated fields, are enumerated. An empirical test which could potentially falsifycertain aspects of the hypothesis is given.
%K Adaptive mutation
%K consciousness
%K directed mutation
%K entanglement
%K entropy
%K evolution
%K falsification
%K information / probability fields
%K interiority
%K natural philosophy
%K negentropy
%K non-locality
%K non-random
%K reductionism.
%U http://integral-review.org/documents/Padelford,%20Consciousness%20in%20Evolution,%20Vol.%205,%20No.%202.pdf