That’s as I understand it, too. However, I think that he also means that QM gives some additional evidence that consciousness is not substrate-dependent, as for instance Massimo Pigliucci meant in the Bloggingheads.TV discussion, because given QM there is no unique time-continuous neuron-number-124 in brain-234 etc. etc. at all. Only functions.
For a discussion of ems this helps. Pigliucci on the other hand meant substrate-independence would imply a dualism. What left me somehow puzzling as he seemed to accept that there is more than one consciousness in the universe, but now I start drifting off...
That’s as I understand it, too. However, I think that he also means that QM gives some additional evidence that consciousness is not substrate-dependent, as for instance Massimo Pigliucci meant in the Bloggingheads.TV discussion, because given QM there is no unique time-continuous neuron-number-124 in brain-234 etc. etc. at all. Only functions.
For a discussion of ems this helps. Pigliucci on the other hand meant substrate-independence would imply a dualism. What left me somehow puzzling as he seemed to accept that there is more than one consciousness in the universe, but now I start drifting off...