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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Biomolecular Basis of Cellular Consciousness via Subcellular Nanobrains.

František Baluška, William B Miller, Arthur S Reber

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Plants have two minds as we do.Plant signaling & behavior · 2025
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  3. The Multiscale Wisdom of the Body: Collective Intelligence as a Tractable Interface for Next-Generation Biomedicine.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  16. Vitalism and cognition in a conscious universe.Communicative & integrative biology · 2022
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  17. Virus-Induced Membrane Fusion in Neurodegenerative Disorders.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
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  18. Towards the Idea of Molecular Brains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

František BaluškaInstitute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8763-7861
William B MillerParadise Valley, Arizona, AZ 85253, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1661-5416
Arthur S ReberDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells emerged at the very beginning of life on Earth and, in fact, are coterminous with life. They are enclosed within an excitable plasma membrane, which defines the outside and inside domains via their specific biophysical properties. Unicellular organisms, such as diverse protists and algae, still live a cellular life. However, fungi, plants, and animals evolved a multicellular existence. Recently, we have developed the cellular basis of consciousness (CBC) model, which proposes that all biological awareness, sentience and consciousness are grounded in general cell biology. Here we discuss the biomolecular structures and processes that allow for and maintain this cellular consciousness from an evolutionary perspective.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological EvolutionCell BiologyCell MembraneConsciousnessactincellcell biologyconsciousnesscytoskeletoneukaryotesexcitabilitymembranessentiencesymbiosis

Identifiers

PMID33802617
PMCPMC7961929

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