> 1) I am filled with distaste when people treat quantum mechanics "like magic". In this case it's just taking an unexplained phenomenon (consciousness, or heck

> 1) I am filled with distaste when people treat quantum mechanics "like magic". In this case it's just taking an unexplained phenomenon (consciousness, or heck, even the weaker 'cognition') and pushing an explanation into a 'more obscure' corner, which I think is intellectually lazy. That is a quite beautiful straw man.