AMA | October 2024

1904.636 - 1931.757 Sean Carroll

Consciousness is an emergent property of nervous systems, says Renan. That is, when neurons do what they do, consciousness emerges. It seems clear that it is only possible because we are this system, i.e., we are the neurons in fields, and field oscillations. It is an emergent property of this system that when these excitations happen in this very particular way, these fields feel, present qualia.