Totally OT: Quantum Mechanics proof for the existence of a Supreme Conciousness?

[bearophile]

Craig Black:
> The fact that there are correlations between neurons firing and
> consciousness is a profound observation.

It was profound 200-300 years ago, today it's well known, like many other things in science.


> However, it doesn't really address the ideas presented, unless I am missing something.

You are probably missing some things, that's why reading a big university manual about neurobiology may help you.


> Furthermore, the 
> assumption that the configuration of matter known as the brain is the cause 
> of consciousness may be fundamentally flawed

A very important part is the configuration of the activation patterns too, that the dynamic state too, it includes the electrical fields of the many charges that create that chemistry dance too.
I think you are making the phenomenon of consciousness more mysterious and strange than necessary. Learning more about nematode and aplysia nervous systems may help you see that the situation is quite more mundane, despite being really complex anyway.
In the end quantum mechanics may have some role in animal brains (but I know no concrete facts about this has being found so far), but surely that's not the most important layer of the reality you have to look at if you want to understand how a living brain works (like a grizzly brain). You have to learn about signal processing, neural dynamics, neural groups, neural networks, neurology, neurobiology, linguistics, sociology... :-)

Bye,
bearophile