On #1: smart people have looked for atomic or subatomic events that could make our consciousness non-classical. They’ve found none. As far as I’m concerned, this is a dead hypothesis. But of course others may disagree.
On #2: not to put too fine a point on it, but all the evidence says death acts just like damaging part of the brain—it stops working—only applied to the whole brain. The thought of some consciousness persisting in the absence of all known function is rather horrifying, now that I come to think of it that way! Happily, we have no reason at all to think it’s true.
On #1: smart people have looked for atomic or subatomic events that could make our consciousness non-classical. They’ve found none. As far as I’m concerned, this is a dead hypothesis. But of course others may disagree.
On #2: not to put too fine a point on it, but all the evidence says death acts just like damaging part of the brain—it stops working—only applied to the whole brain. The thought of some consciousness persisting in the absence of all known function is rather horrifying, now that I come to think of it that way! Happily, we have no reason at all to think it’s true.