When we examine consciousness up close, it starts to look a bit like the quantum realm. Memories pop in and out of our minds like subatomic particles. Images and sounds tunnel through our senses. Perception, we find, is suffused throughout with uncertainties that would make Heisenberg blush. There's no denying that the brain is up to some pretty sl

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Our current epistemology—dominated by a physicalist, reductive, Cartesian science—is unequipped to recognize anything real that isn’t measurable by matter. It insists consciousness must be a function of neurons and nothing else. It assumes life must emerge from biology, even though we now simulate biology with code.

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Quantum mechanics holds that matter may not be as innocent of mind as the materialist would have us believe. For example, a subatomic particle can exist simultaneously in multiple locations, is pure possibility, until it is measured—that is, perceived by a mind. Only then and not a moment sooner does it drop into reality as we know it: acquire fixe

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