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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Yes, but why not all ion channels? Is my big toe conscious?
I have to say that I do not understand how any of this solves the hard problem or gives us libertarian free will.
But you think I need a quantum mechanical explanation for this, rather than simply a classical explanation? Can't a group of neurons maintain a pattern using classic mechanisms?
Do I need a quantum mechanical explanation for why a flower follows the sun?
I don't see how he's solved the hard problem, either. Why does my thought to move my arm feel the way it does?
~~ Paul |
Not all problems are solved in Stapp's theory. But I think his point that QM must be applied to everything is valid. How can something material be conscious? Well, in this theory (and in QM) there are no material things in the ordinary sense. He goes into these things in the interview I linked in the above post.