The Emergence of Consciousness in the Quantum Universe
@article{Zhang2011TheEO, title={The Emergence of Consciousness in the Quantum Universe}, author={Xiaolei Zhang}, journal={arXiv: General Physics}, year={2011} }
It is argued that human consciousness is likely to have emerged during the self-consistent evolution of the physical universe, through the gradual accumulation of biological entities' ability to tap into the intrinsic non-deterministic potentiality in the global nonequilibrium phase transitions occurring continually in the quantum universe. Due to the fact that the matter and energy content participating in these global phase transitions is a continuum, there are in effect infinite degrees-of…
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