Consciousness will only ever be partially explained and even then, never in terms of the legacy polar opposites of mind and matter.
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If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
If consciousness is a holistic property of information and energy-processing systems, or even a “phase” of matter, it must have some very special logical properties.
Is consciousness an emergent phenomena from the mysteriously unintelligible sub-microscopic world of quantum mechanics ? Yes, and no.
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Is Consciousness Inevitable ?
The arrival of conscious observers in the Universe is not so much a miraculous surprise as a probabilistic inevitability hard-coded into the symmetries and logic of matter and physics.
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Strange Days – Rewriting the Past
If the past was as open to possibility as the future, the present could still be exactly what it is…
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