  There have lately been a variety of attempts to connect, or even explain, if
not in fact, reduce human consciousness to quantum mechanical processes. Such
attempts tend to draw a sharp and fundamental distinction between the role of
consciousness in classical mechanics, and on the other hand, in quantum
mechanics, with an insistence on the assumed exceptional character of the
latter. What is strangely missed, however, is the role of human consciousness
as such in the very discovery or creation of both of these physical theories.
And this a priori role is far more important than all the possible a posteriori
interplays between consciousness and the mentioned two theories of physics,
interplays which may happen during one or another specific experiment,
measurement, and so on. In this regard it is suggested that the specific
features human consciousness may exhibit during interactions with quantum
mechanical systems may as well have other explanations which do not appear to
be less plausible, or less well founded.
