This is where your personal bias is inherently manifested. As the author pointed out, The Beall lists are inaccurate (9), which means the basis for Beall’s call for a ban (10) was deeply flawed because of the lack of clearly defined and quantifiable criteria for each entry in those lists, making calls by others (11) to formalize “predatory” journals in curriculum vitae dangerously unscholarly and discriminatory, and leading to considerable criticism on PubPeer (12).
‘The final nail in the coffin of Beall’s blog was Beall’s lax use of the term “predatory”. Initially, Beall had coined the term exclusively for OA journals and publishers, as exemplified by his lists (6), but in some of his latest publications, Beall conveniently, or purposefully, eliminated the limited characterization of OA, simply referring to them more broadly as “predatory” journals or “predatory” publishers (17), and in essence invalidating his own lists.’
Despite all this, you still consider Beall’s unreliable, non-peer reviewed, unmitigated list that has since been deactivated 4 years ago, a legit source in order to reject that article. This is a very desperate attempt to refute an article and theory.
How do you know that?
My bad on that article. At first glance, it looked like it was relevant until I read it again carefully. This article is the right one:
"…Indeed, Orch OR may also help explain other mysteries including how anesthesia works, the origin and evolution of life, free will, the flow of time, memory, dreams, and how general relativity relates to quantum mechanics.
…Spanning disciplines and scale, with high explanatory power, Orch OR is the most complete theory of consciousness."
(A) Consciousness and digital information are non-local (I.e. Transcendent mind)
"(B) Consciousness is a separate quality, distinct from physical actions and not controlled by physical laws, that has always been in the universe. Descartes’ ‘dualism’, religious viewpoints, and other spiritual approaches assume consciousness has been in the universe all along, e.g. as the ‘ground of being’, ‘creator’ or component of an omnipresent ‘God’ ……
“…Nonetheless, in the Orch OR scheme, these events are taken to have a rudimentary subjective experience, which is undifferentiated and lacking in cognition, perhaps providing the constitutive ingredients of what philosophers call qualia. We term such un-orchestrated, ubiquitous OR events, lacking information and cognition, ‘proto-conscious’. In this regard, Orch OR has some points in common with the viewpoint (B) of Section 1, which incorporates spiritualist, idealist and panpsychist elements, these being argued to be essential precursors of consciousness that are intrinsic to the universe .” [emphasis added]
Consciousness in the universe: A review of the ‘Orch OR’ theory - ScienceDirect
(B) Life’s existence is fundamentally dependent on agent causality (I.e. Designer)
Look in section “choice-contingent causation and control” of this article for this quote:
“CCCC steers events toward pragmatic results that are valued by agents. CCCC is a true primary cause leading to very real effects, particularly the effect of useful work rather than mere physicodynamic constraint. CCCC can generate extraordinary degrees of unique functionality that have never been observed to arise from randomness or law-described necessity. Neither physicodynamics nor evolution can pursue potential utility (e.g., the programming of computational success prior to its realization). CCCC does. CCCC is the only known cause and governor of formalisms.”
C) Life is fundamentally digital information and resembles natural language (I.e. Common)
From the conclusions section of this article:
"The repetitive non-coding RNA sequences resemble that of a natural everyday language, i.e., the essential tool to coordinate and organize common behavior. "
From the conclusions of the “Is Life Unique” article:
'What is the ingredient missing from inanimate physicodynamics that makes life possible? The answer is formal control mechanisms. This “regulation,” as it most often appears in the literature, is instructed by Prescriptive Information (PI) and its algorithmic processing—both elements being uniquely produced by life. In addition, both elements seem to have been inherent in life at the subcellular level in its earliest and simplest forms…
…All of these phenomena are as nonphysical and formal as mathematics; and unique to life.’
[D] Origin of life experiments require human intervention
“For experiments aimed at demonstrating chemically more complex processes, such as multistep syntheses mimicking biochemical pathways or genetic replication, repeated interventions by the experimentalist have been necessary.”
Prebiotic chemistry and human intervention | Nature Communications
Correct, I don’t but others do:
The Current Status of Baraminology (creationresearch.org)
[16-Article Text-239-1-10-20160927.pdf](file:///C:/Users/Ken%20Frazer/Downloads/16-Article%20Text-239-1-10-20160927.pdf)
That’s not what the study suggests:
“Although observed rates of acquisition of horizontally transferred genes in eukaryotes are generally lower than in prokaryotes, it appears that, far from being a rare occurrence, HGT has contributed to the evolution of many, perhaps all, animals and that the process is ongoing in most lineages. Between tens and hundreds of foreign genes are expressed in all the animals we surveyed, including humans. The majority of these genes are concerned with metabolism, suggesting that HGT contributes to biochemical diversification during animal evolution.”