The antenna theory is intriguing but always bugged me. Where do we get that idea that consciousness lives outside the body/brain? Where did it come from?

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mandolingual 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's just Consciousness of the Gaps. Quantum mechanics are mysterious and are a frontier of science, so surely consciousness must dwell there.

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GPerson 2 days ago | parent [-]

The answer to what consciousness is does not come from anything yet known so it is natural to hope it exists somewhere just beyond what we know well. There is nothing wrong with this.

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thrance a day ago | parent [-]

> There is nothing wrong with this.

I would say it is, you shouldn't make unsubstantiated claims based on gaps in our shared knowledge, that's very unscientific. Just because we don't understand something very well, doesn't mean we can just attribute other unexplained phenomena to it.

As for quantum effects in the brain being responsible for consciousness, there is very good reason to think it is false, no matter how much Penrose insists.

	▲	GPerson a day ago \| parent [-]
		I’m not sure why you willfully misinterpret my post. What’s unscientific is to positively assert unsubstantiated claims, not to posit a theory. You also inserted Penrose out of thin air so I’m not sure you’re even engaging with anything I’ve written.

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thrance a day ago | parent | prev [-]

That's just another name for dualism, wikipedia has a history section about it, if you're interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism