The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless
conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to
be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with
our conscious experiences entering only passively. During the twentieth
century the classical concepts were found to be inadequate. In the new
theory, quantum mechanics, our conscious experiences enter into the
dynamics in specified ways not fixed by the physically described aspects
alone. Consequences of this radical change in our understanding of the
connection between mind and brain are described.

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