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To: Brumar89 who wrote (3005)	9/11/2009 12:13:40 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) of 69300

<Which quantum particles wave functions collapse to create human consciousness?> Stapp believes that conciousness IS NOT an epiphenom, that's his greater point. The brain is a connection or "tuner", but doesn't create conciousness (surprise) U-Tube: Potentialities turn into possibilities and then realities based on descision: "The act of the human is based on wanting to know something... must be meaning" Book: amazon.com <<The last sentence of the chapter "Conclusions" is, "The falseness of that deviation of science (the classical ideal of a mechanical universe) must be made known, and heralded, because human beings are not likely to endure in a society ruled by a conception of themselves that denies the essence of their being.">> <Quantum mechanics as explanation for consciousness? "Collapse of the wave function" - a fancy way of appealing to mystery and magic.> He's tying QM to consciousness and describing broadly how the connect... the predictive power of QM is well known and the most advanced (to date) description of how "things" work, it's no mystery. <And how is consciousness created by quantum particles anyway?> It's not... it's more like how are quantum particles formed by consciouness. :) DAK

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