In response to Contzen Pereira's paper

My feedback to Contzen Pereira's paper:  Is it Quantum Sentience or Quantum Consciousness?


Dear Contzen, I have finally found the time to read your paper.

With all these examples of cooperative behavior in microorganisms, considering that a human body is made up of about 10 times as many microorganisms as cells, there might still be hope for us, if we manage to learn to follow their example. Admittedly, cooperative behavior might be easier for a simple organism than for one as complex as us. But I appreciate your contribution in that it shows the basic ubiquousness of cooperative behavior in the evolution of life from the simplest to ever more complex forms of life. Thank you for that!

In your conclusion you write: "The protoplasm in the cell of all organisms is unique and for microorganisms it holds the ability to store and retrieve memory, acting as a store house of intelligence. It has the ability to make an organism conscious of its surroundings and its main effort is to gain a clear perception to associate and recognize favourable and unfavourable conditions, just like the brain in higher organisms."

I would like to add that it is highly likely that in higher organisms the ability of protoplasm is as active in storing and retrieving information as in microorganisms and probably works in unison with the nervous system.

In my hands-on practice of DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition every day I find evidence that this ability of protoplasm plays a major role in the prevalence of belief systems that developed under the initial conditions of a person's life over clear perception of present circumstances. So, as you pointed out at an earlier point in your paper, the learning process often leads to the formation of habit. This is where the human animal seems to have a hard time in acknowledging its own tendency for habitual behavior, insisting on it being "reasonable" and based on clear perception of the environment, when really it is being perceived through the prism of the information stored in the protoplasm under the initial conditions of the person's life that have given rise to the particular organization of the interactive patterns in their nervous system.

From the information stored in the protoplasm continuously rises an underlying sensation that colors experience as insiduously as the music in a hotel lobby. You hardly hear it, but it may soothe your state of mind or irritate it according to what kind of music it is. As long as it remains underneath the threshold of consiousness it determines behavior, because the organism senses it, even though the person is not aware of it.

Even when the person has become aware of it as a mere reflection of the past, it still requires continuous practice to perceive present reality beyond its shadow and develop behaviors that are more conducive to cooperation and understanding than the patterns often marked by the unresolved issues of our predecessors.