Ah OK, I've read nearly all his books, and I'm not convinced by the 'quantum microtubules' argument or whatever it's called these days, let alone any arguments

Ah OK, I've read nearly all his books, and I'm not convinced by the 'quantum microtubules' argument or whatever it's called these days, let alone any arguments about souls and so on. I agree these models are surprisingly capable for their complexity, and that's going to be a challenge for mystics (even physicist mystics) and spiritualists, etc. Perhaps intelligence isn't all that difficult after all. I suppose one counter idea is that complexity, or scale, itself taps into some other dimensional consciousness or intelligence, but that starts to sound circular. And there's always the fallback of why our universe supports such amazing complexity in the first place, it does all seem a bit magical.