Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8207341 | Physics of Life Reviews | 2012 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Natural phenomena are reducible to quantum events, but this does not always provide the best level of analysis. ⺠Current QM proposals do not explain the major empirical features of consciousness. ⺠Animal species that show consciousness do not violate the laws of physics, but they do not directly follow from known physics either. ⺠There are striking differences between brain regions and events that support conscious experiences and those that do not. ⺠While in the future we might find QM phenomena that bear distinctively on consciousness, none are known so far.
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Authors
Bernard J. Baars, David B. Edelman,