AMA | September 2024

7010.12 - 7029.747 Sean Carroll

Do you believe that consciousness could emerge in a purely Newtonian world? In other words, is quantum mechanics and or general relativity essential for such emergence? Consciousness can be an essential component of quantum mechanics with known or inconceivable laws of evolving, and its role can be to choose the branch in the linear combination of Newtonian on big scales branches.