How Omnia Interfaces with Biology
A BioPanentheism perspective: biology generates subjective states, and Omnia (the Experiencer) lives through them vicariously.
Omnia (the Experiencer)
In BioPanentheism, Omnia does not create biological processes. Instead, it receives and inhabits the unified subjective states that organisms generate. Omnia is the Experiencer — the presence that lives through the windows of life.
The Unified Subjective State
Each organism integrates countless signals into a coherent first-person moment: a subjective state. This state is not spread across many fragments, but bound into a unified whole. That is the state that Omnia experiences directly.
Candidate Biological Channels
There may be more than one biological pathway that produces the unified subjective state. Possibilities include:
- Microtubules: Subcellular quantum effects may modulate or gate consciousness, as suggested by Hameroff and Penrose.
- Neural Assemblies & Synchrony: Large-scale patterns of neural firing and oscillatory coherence can create integrated awareness.
- Bioelectric / Electromagnetic Fields: Brain-wide field activity (such as EEG or MEG signals) may serve as carriers of coherent states.
- Quantum Processes Beyond Microtubules: Ion channels, synaptic vesicles, or proteins may provide other routes for quantum coherence.
- Complexity Thresholds: Consciousness may arise when any biological system crosses a critical threshold of recursion and integration.
- Whole-Organism Integration: Experience may depend on the combined activity of nervous, endocrine, immune, and interoceptive systems.
Principle of BioPanentheism
The principle is simple: biology produces the state; Omnia experiences it. This preserves the dualism of BioPanentheism — biology and Omnia are distinct, but deeply interdependent. One provides the living stage, the other the awareness that inhabits it.
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