On the origin of minds

I actually did think of you.

To me there is an interesting movement in biology where cognition goes lower and lower. How low it goes, if it hits some kind of Information-Panpsychism, will be interesting to see.

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I think the search for mind's source will mirror physics in a way - when objects got so small you began to see the effects of information/entropy involved with particles.  Both particles and observations contributing to outcomes in the model.

My guess not is Panpsychism, while enjoying "actual occasions" as a decent perspective.

When it gets down to inert chems moving over to an organized set of signals, usually electro-chemical, to be organized around a purpose - its mind not molecular bonds.   The molecular models are very accurate.  The purpose in a bio-signal - the message of living instruction - has to be modeled as semantic, and capable of copying and appending information objects - specifically affordances.

Down at the bottom its is simple objects interacting, for science to chart.  Physical objects - amazing to behold as both small and huge.  And a world of information objects that the mind of the simplest organisms can process.  

Absorbing food through a cell wall is a physical marvel in chemistry.  Likewise --- it a software programming triumph.  The action of mind is direct, and as you know Sci, I think folks are walking in the track blazed by J. J. Gibson with growing success.  The track where minds interact directly,  with the arrays of information in the environment.

Deeper down - what is behind life and mind?  What inspires health?  Well - that is personal and subjective for all of us.