Abstract
The fundamental assumption we should examine is this: That awareness – the subjective experience occurring in alert human minds – is not a basic feature of matter that must be explained by a complete theory of physics. Physics attempts to understand the world around us, the world in which we find ourselves, and its phenomena. A skeptical position requires us to question all the sacred cows – to apply rational thought and the scientific method to all physical phenomena. We can ask, “How does the classical world emerge from the quantum world underlying it?” Brains are in the classical world. Awareness clearly is intimately related to and dependent on brains. Awareness is an undeniable, given, basic, phenomenon that arises in the classical world from the quantum mechanical world.
Rikki M. Westerschulte