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The matter of the mind: How does it work?

Dear Mr. Raymo,
As you may recall, I wrote to you sev­er­al months ago regard­ing the con­nec­tion between quan­tum physics and con­scious­ness. You replied by express­ing skep­ti­cism that the “fuzzi­ness” of the quan­tum world has any­thing to do with the free­dom and cre­ativ­i­ty we asso­ciate with con­scious­ness. If not, then how does physics explain these things?