Physicist Explains Consciousness: Mind-Blowing!

Transcript

Well, my view, which comes from years of thinking about these puzzles and my intuition as a physicist, my intuition tells me that consciousness somehow emerges, an emergent phenomenon when you have particles, molecules, atoms in a sufficiently coherent arrangement. But if you ask me how does that happen, I remain at a loss because I don't know. And nobody knows the mechanism by which consciousness emerges from orderly structures.