The Sentient Cell

Arthur S. Reber is Broeklundian Professor, Emeritus at Brooklyn College of CUNY. He completed his Ph.D. at Brown University under the direction of Richard Millward. His primary focus has been on implicit or unconscious learning based on principles of evolutionary biology. He has previously published The Cognitive Unconscious and The First Minds with OUP.František Baluška was Group Leader at the IZMB, University of Bonn. He is one of the leading scientists in the fields of cell biology, cytoskeleton, polarity and plant sensory biology. He published more than 200 peer reviewed papers. Web of Science scores 283 entries with H-Index 63. In order to foster this new sensory and behavioural view of plants and their roots, he has cofounded together with Taylor & Francis two scientific journals: Plant Signaling & Behavior and Communicative and Integrative Biology. He is editor of the book series Signaling and Communication in Plants at the Springer Verlag.William B. Miller has been a physician in academic and private practice for over 35 years. In that time, he has also published dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles and seven books concentrating on cellular intelligence and its role in biological and evolutionary development, the cellular measurement of environmental information for decision-making and problem-solving, and the intimate partnership between the virome and the cellular domains.

The Sentient Cell comes at a timely moment,... It is increasingly obvious that the climate crisis is indistinguishable from the biodiversity crisis, and science calls repeatedly for "transformational change."...The Sentient Cell therefore presents an essential intellectual framework that reconnects us to the best of the Western scientific tradition. It provides an intellectual pathway to reorganize our relationship with our life-support system. This is an essential transformational book for present and future generations, and for real and meaningful cross-cultural reconciliation.

• 1: Prologue: Setting the Stage 2: The Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC) 3: It's Cells All the Way Down 4: What is Life? The Vitalism-Mechanism Debate and the Origins of Life 5: Emergence and Evolution of Cells 6: The Structural and Bioelectrical Basis of Cells 7: Biophysical Basis of Cellular Sentience 8: The Biological Information Cycle: The Terms of Consciousness 9: Genes are Tools of Intelligent Cells: Biological and Evolutionary Development in the 21st Century 10: The N-space Episenome: Life as Information Management 11: Anesthetics and their Cellular Targets 12: Plant Sentience: Linking Cellular Consciousness to the Cognitive and Behavioral Features of Plant Life 13: Issues of Ethics and Morality: Entailments of the CBC