Overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that consciousness may be fundamentally linked to properties of physical systems. Quantum coherence in biological molecules, as well as entangled states of macroscopic objects such as brains, are important examples that support this notion. If we consider the quantum effects that seem most relevant to biology (e.g., coherence, entanglement,...
In a nutshell the assumption of free-will consists in the view that every decision making process within the brain occurs unconsciously and autonomously whereas consciousness is seen as the result of this unconscious free-will manifesting self-awareness and reflecting itself about its own processes. As a consequence it appears as if one has at least some level of control over his own decisions...
Consciousness appears to be an emergent property of some complex, nonlinear system in the brain. According to the integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT), a complex system composed of numerous integrated processing elements can be conscious due to the existence of a global, system-level integration of that complexity, which is associated with a specific level of information known...
The Extended Mind Thesis holds that mental states are realized in extended physical systems and are not identical with processes occurring inside the brain. A central question raised by this hypothesis is how to model cognition within this extended framework. Here I propose that classical computation can't explain this extension and one rather needs a quantum mechanical description of cognition...