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It's funny, but to be certain that consciousness can be explained by known laws - we just don't know exactly how - itself requires faith and is quite unscientif
by 10ren 17y ago
It's funny, but to be certain that consciousness can be explained by known laws - we just don't know exactly how - itself requires faith and is quite unscientific.
Although I too believe it.
- lkozma 17y agoI see this just as an application of Occam's razor. What Penrose does has been called the "law of minimization of mystery": consciousness is misterious, quantum mechanics is misterious, so why not try to explain one with the other.
- randallsquared 17y agoFew such are certain, in the religious sense. They're certain until new evidence shows otherwise.