(February 1, 2015 at 10:33 am)Alex K Wrote: I don't know how it could possibly contribute to the philosophical discussion at hand in a meaningful way, but photons are currently not known to be spatially extensive - they are, like electrons, mathematically described as point particles which are subject to quantum mechanical uncertainty, and no measurement so far falsifies this assumption. If string theory is correct, we'd know more about their shape, as it would be a 1-dimensional string instead of a point particle, but that's pure speculation.
Science is pointing away from a consciousness as a requirement as a cause no matter what we currently don't know about QM.
There simply is no need to fill in the gap with a giant cognition.
