Xiaolei Zhang

The Emergence of Consciousness in the Quantum Universe

arXiv Preprint Archive February 26, 2011 Xiaolei Zhang preprint

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...