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Scott Staples
Wellington
New Zealand

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Is there a working hypothesis as to how consciousness arises?

I know that many debatable theories have been proposed, such as consciousness arising from matter (highly unlikely) and matter arising from consciousness (still debated) but has any quantum physicist or other scientist proposed a working hypothesis yet?

EDIT: I'm talking about consciousness at the level of a human

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Philipp Böing 200+
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Apr 19 2011: Another corollary to this point is, that consciousness is usually very overrated. We are conscious of much less than we think we are.
Daniel Dennett dispels the myth of what he calls the 'Cartesian Theater'.
Here's one of his TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness.html

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