Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical … - Erwin Schrödinger

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Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

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About Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961) was an Austrian physicist, one of the founders of quantum theory, and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics. His ideas were heavily influenced by monist philosophy and he is particularly well known for original interpretations of the significance of the wave function and for devising the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.

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Alternative Names: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schröndinger • Erwin Schrodinger • Erwin Schroedinger • Schrödinger • Schrodinger • Ervinus Rudolphus Iosephus Alexandrus Schrödinger
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Originators like Erwin Schrödinger:
Arthur Eddington Henri Bergson Alan Watts Alfred North Whitehead Werner Heisenberg

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Boltzmann’s equation is well illustrated by that example. The gradual ‘spreading out’ of the sugar over all the water available increases the disorder D), and hence (since the logarithm of D increases with D) the entropy.
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