/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14528266
I will post a penrose quote related to this idea of the difficulty of reconciling the idea of how, given the QM implications, a physical brain could produce consciousness. Penrose is a physicalist, but an honest one at least. So he still wants to have the worldview that matter and energy are all there is, and that this matter somehow becomes conscious, but he at the same time knows that it is an incoherent theory. He knows that matter is only rendered upon measurement, at least in a one world interpretation of QM, as opposed to a many worlds interpretation. And so if something is only defined upon measurement/observation, then how could something such as a brain be causative of consciousness. And he likely knows that decoherence doesn't solve the measurement problem either.