Quantum Qualia?



Genuine progress on the Hard Problem of consciousness? Maybe.
A proposal that avoids issues with the reductionist position that experience of consciousness emerges from complexity in the physical world. Then goes further: offering a plausible substrate from which both a physical reality and a subjective mind can arise, and a mechanism for a casual communication between them.
http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/penrose-hameroff/quantumcomputation.html
http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/consciousconnection.htm

Consciousness more than an epi-phenomenon

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“It is worth contemplating that, though an evolutionary player Y is so easily beaten.. ..it is exactly evolution, on the hugely larger canvas of DNA-based life, that ultimately has produced X, the player with the mind.”