Talk:Nick Herbert (physicist)

"Herbert's quantum animism differs from traditional animism in that it avoids assuming a dualistic model of mind and matter. Traditional dualism assumes that some kind of spirit inhabits a body and makes it move, a ghost in the machine. Herbert's quantum animism presents the idea that every natural system has an inner life, a conscious center, from which it directs and observes its action."

If this claim is true, why is it expressed in language indistinguishable from that used by dualists? How is the so-called 'inner life' of a 'natural system' any less dualistic than the inner life of a brain? The 'dualistic model of mind and matter' hasn't been avoided here, it's simply switched venue. We have no better idea than we did before just what this 'conscious centre' could be, or how it's doing the directing and observing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.101.72 (talk) 05:18, 12 October 2016 (UTC)