AMA | September 2024

7030.507 - 7055.848 Sean Carroll

So again, I do not know what consciousness is or what it requires. I see absolutely zero reason why it couldn't emerge in a purely Newtonian world. It's true that things happen in our brains that are fundamentally stochastic because of the rules of quantum mechanics. But there's very little that happens in your brain that actually depends on a single quantum mechanical event, right?