Consciousness, biology and quantum hypotheses

► Natural phenomena are reducible to quantum events, but this does not always provide the best level of analysis. ► Current QM proposals do not explain the major empirical features of consciousness. ► Animal species that show consciousness do not violate the laws of physics, but they do not directly follow from known physics either. ► There are striking differences between brain regions and events that support conscious experiences and those that do not. ► While in the future we might find QM phenomena that bear distinctively on consciousness, none are known so far.