Some people do have an answer for it... Schmidhuber's answer: consciousness is a byproduct of data compression.
Anyway, there's certainly no evidence to suggest that consciousness requires anything more than our current understanding of physical laws. This article was pretty interesting with its topical exploration of self organization and a more math-based approach, but once it got into quantum physics it started to delve into the realm of pure conjecture and pseudo-science.
Anyway, there's certainly no evidence to suggest that consciousness requires anything more than our current understanding of physical laws. This article was pretty interesting with its topical exploration of self organization and a more math-based approach, but once it got into quantum physics it started to delve into the realm of pure conjecture and pseudo-science.