From biology to physics and the unknown: What would it mean to understand consciousness?
Academia Biology July 15, 2025 Charles Capaday
The three main ideas of the relation between the brain and the mind, Cartesian dualism, epiphenomenalism and brain–mind identity theory are critically reviewed. The point is made that none of these ideas, or their numerous variants, are based on explicit biological, or physical, mechanisms and are therefore not scientific in nature. By contrast, the Penrose–Hameroff orchestrated objective...