Chapter 11: A Holistic Perspective on Consciousness Check Access

There is a rich history of attempts to define consciousness. Beginning with the inception of written records, consequential philosophers including Plato, Descartes, Schopenhauer, Kant, Chalmers and Clarke have offered their particular perspectives. Yet, none of them have provided experimental evidence for consciousness. As an alternative to that rich history, a hypothesis is presented that consciousness originated with the Singularity. From this background, further evidence supports the idea that our physiology emerges through the continuous endogenization of the external environment. This process has its own origins in the life-protecting endogenization of heavy metals into the living form to become compatible with homeostasis. This elemental process reiterates through endosymbiosis. Through this diachronic approach, consciousness can be accredited as crossing space–time and as an essential to cosmic function.