Santiago Sánchez-Migallón Jiménez

I analyse one of the most recent quantum theories of consciousness, Stuart Kauffman's. I describe his attempt to substantiate the insufficiency of Newtonian physics and classical computation to explain consciousness; his proposal of an ontology that bases the collapse of the wave function from the interpretation of von Neumann and Wigner; his argument that the collapse of the wave function is experienced as a quale ; and his proposal to achieve general artificial intelligence (GAI) through Trans-Turing systems. I offer a critique of multiple aspects of the theory that, at the same time, can be extended to most quantum theories of consciousness, and in the end, I reflect on the possibilities and new directions of Kauffman's theory and quantum theories of consciousness in general terms.