William H. Calvin Quote

Quantum mechanics is probably essential to consciousness in about the same way as crystals were once essential to radios, or spark plugs are still essential to traffic jams. Necessary, but not sufficient.


How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now, Chapter 3 (p. 36), Basic Books, Inc. 1996


Quantum mechanics is probably essential to consciousness in about the same way as crystals were once essential to radios, or spark plugs are still...

Quantum mechanics is probably essential to consciousness in about the same way as crystals were once essential to radios, or spark plugs are still...

Quantum mechanics is probably essential to consciousness in about the same way as crystals were once essential to radios, or spark plugs are still...

Quantum mechanics is probably essential to consciousness in about the same way as crystals were once essential to radios, or spark plugs are still...