The history of science shows that many phenomena previously thought to require vital or non-mechanical explanations (life, heredity, etc.) eventually yielded to mechanical explanations, yet consciousness remains stubbornly resistant to such explanation despite centuries of effort.
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Donald HoffmanEvidence Quote
“physicalists have been trying to give theories of Consciousness quite strongly now for the last three decades right so we have integrated information Theory uh Global workspace Theory orchestrated collapse of quantum states of microtubules and so forth [2:35]”
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