RE: Please Help Me Understand Consciousness
March 7, 2014 at 9:53 am
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2014 at 9:53 am by Justtristo.)
(March 6, 2014 at 1:31 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Victor Stenger wrote a book or paper on the subject, but I haven't read it. He would be a good source for the skeptical viewpoint on the subject though. I know Sam Harris has also made occasional comments on the subject, but I don't know if he's written anything extensive on the subject. Quantum consciousness, like many ideas on consciousness, involves vague intuitions about "what must be" without an actual theoretical mechanism for making that happen.
Stenger wrote both a paper and book on the subject,
The link to the paper entitled The Myth of Quantum Consciousness
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vsten...usness.pdf
The book which was an expansion of the paper was titled Quantum Gods: Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness
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