Of all the odd notions to emerge from debates over consciousness, the oddest is that it doesn’t exist, at least not in the way we think it does. It is an illusion, like “Santa Claus” or “American ...

That complexity deepens when you consider the paradoxes of consciousness. “Everything I know about the brain tells me we don’t really have free will,” Conrad says.

Roger Penrose proposes a conscious observer doesn’t cause wave function collapse. A conscious observer is caused by wave function collapse.

This paradox challenges our understanding of the nature of consciousness and highlights the limitations of our current philosophical frameworks in addressing the question of artificial qualia.

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One of the most important paradoxes in physics is Schrödinger's Cat. At the microscopic level, light and particles behave according to quantum mechanics. This allows them to be in two places at ...