This website synopsis  gives an idea what P.E.T  (Primal Eye or Phantom Eye Theory) is about, but does not include  more recent work  (MA on R.E.M. & dreams, or PhD paper on Real Time, Connectionist self-organisation). Before going any further, because I have been asked to clarify this a thousand times, the Pineal or Primal (predating the modern lateral eyes) or ‘Phantom eye’  is not the Pineal “gland”.

Primal Eye (aka Phantom or Pineal Eye) THEORY

Primal Eye theory is claimed to solve the historic Mind-Body Problem

The ability to have ‘abstract’ mental representations first occurred in early evolution, and how this basic trick becomes more refined as the ages pass. A delineation of this ‘trick’ or ‘mechanism,' I contend, clears up a whole cluster of related questions which Schopenhauer called "the world-knot." Alternative names for the Primal eye include - median eye, pineal eye, parietal eye, old eye. Somewhat different, but possibly linked, are various international legends of ‘third eyes’ often in the possession of a deity, for examnple Horus, Rah, or Shiva.

If  P.E.T can be shown true (by experiments or by development of applications, then it provides us a simplifying and elegant Inter-Theoretic Reduction. Apart from Jerrison’s Recency Theory, there are few if any alternative evolutionary narratives for the emergence of modern self-referential consciousness.  

P.E.T can be summarised that  “the neural netware of the brain instantiates (from neural information) not only our experience of the world (qualia) but also a virtual Sense Organ from the Primal eye evolutionary blueprint. The fact that seer and seen are both part of the same process overcomes the Dualist objections levelled against Descartes’ very different Pineal GLAND theory, particularly Leibnitz objection that “Like can only interact with Like”, and that to be fully identical, the two things must be interchangeable.

Steve Nichols

Part one of eight - approx 8 mins 30 secs of 54 minute video with Prof. Richard Gregory, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, and Sarah Cox (zookeeper).

Part Two - Philosophy

Part Three - Religion

Part Four - Biology

Part 5a - More about Primal Eye

Part 5b - Pineal Eye loss and neurology

Part Six - Physics and Artificial Brains

Part 7 - Dreams, R.E.M. & Paradoxical Sleep

Part Eight - Singularity