It is widely accepted that consciousness or, more generally, mental activity is in some way correlated to the behavior of the material brain.
Since quantum theory is the most fundamental theory of matter that is currently available, it is a legitimate question to ask whether quantum theory can help us to understand consciousness. Several programmatic approaches answering this question affirmatively, proposed in recent decades, have been surveyed.
It will be pointed out that they make different epistemological assumptions, refer to different neurophysiological levels of description, and use quantum theory in different ways.
Key Takeaways:
- The soft-spoken 62-year-old professor Dr. Roger Penrose is one of the world’s leading experts on General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
- Yet this particular bundle turns out to be an unfamiliar one to his listeners, even though it is, in fact, far more mundane.
- The Emperor’s New Mind. In that book he suggested that consciousness is created by some mysterious Quantum Mechanical phenomenon that takes place in brain cells.
“The quest for the ultimate laws of nature has taken physicists to such wondrous locales as the interiors of massive black holes and the unimaginably small islets of matter conjured up in particle accelerators.”
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