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It's not very far from his argument. The article quotes him as saying “We need a major revolution in our understanding of the physical world in order to accommo
by gdavisson 9y ago
It's not very far from his argument. The article quotes him as saying “We need a major revolution in our understanding of the physical world in order to accommodate consciousness. The most likely place, if we’re not going to go outside physics altogether, is in this big unknown—namely, making sense of quantum mechanics.”
- drostie 9y agoThe word "this" is key, and the reasoning why it's this unknown, and not, say, our unknowns about the arrow of time or whatever -- see also my comments below. If you're going to stay in the realm of normal conventional physics and try to explain the phenomena that he's trying to explain, those conventional physics steer you towards this particular part of physics as a crucial step in understanding how we're able to accomplish certain forms of reasoning in general.