> This is the same kind of nonsense that leads people to search for some kind of magical "quantum" thing in the brain that makes the special mystical consciousness effect, because of some vague intuition that it can't come from the normal high-level behaviour of neurons.
It's this very behavior that I call consciousness-of-the-gaps. It shifts the unexplainableness of consciousness into the unexplainableness[1] of quantum mechanics. If the public did have a comprehensive understanding of quantum mechanics, consciousness would be rebased upon another unexplainable phenomenon and the process would repeat.
1. In this case, it aligns more with the public's perception of how quantum mechanics works rather than the rigorous physics version, but that misinterpretation only strengthens the argument.
It's this very behavior that I call consciousness-of-the-gaps. It shifts the unexplainableness of consciousness into the unexplainableness[1] of quantum mechanics. If the public did have a comprehensive understanding of quantum mechanics, consciousness would be rebased upon another unexplainable phenomenon and the process would repeat.
1. In this case, it aligns more with the public's perception of how quantum mechanics works rather than the rigorous physics version, but that misinterpretation only strengthens the argument.