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Johnjoe McFadden PHD - QUANTUM BIOLOGY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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The Binding Problem of Consciousness

We need to understand better this theory of consciousness which you touched on in the intro because it's so great to get some biologists into this debate. As we've been talking about already, it's really important that this becomes a more multi-disciplinary debate and at the moment it seems to be or at least historically it's been dominated by neuroscientists and philosophers. Now, take us back to what you mentioned before. You argue that consciousness is physically located in the electromagnetic fields created by the neurons firing. How would that work? I think probably what a good starting point is a fundamental problem of consciousness and it's called the binding problem. So how does it all come together? Where in the

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