The Emergence of Consciousness in the Quantum Universe
arXiv Preprint Archive February 26, 2011 Xiaolei Zhang
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...