In explaining consciousness, in the end our explanation must come down to:
...thus-and-such happens and, as we now see, full conscious experience must follow.
So we need to establish exactly what thus-and-such is, and what universal principles it relies on to work.
In this text we systematically and logically reverse-engineer and reconstruct the phenomena that make up consciousness. The approach involves a synthesis of physics and philosophy because, as the title suggests, we dig as deep as the quantum level to deliver a solution to the traditional mind-body problem.
[This is the 2025 updated edition. with a bonus first chapter that examines the suggestion that some LLM AIs might achieve consciousness]
