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question from no thanks I’m driving

If physics is the study of the motion of material bodies and the things that make material bodies move, and humans are nought but the sum of the material from which they are made which can be described in its entirity by a unified theory of physics, where does that leave consciousness?

Somehow, by the way this was worded, I get the feeling that you want a proper answer. Strange, that. Almost as if you told me this in a cinema lobby, prior to watching The Blair Witch Project.
Shame that I’m unprepared and unwilling to provide you with one at this time.

This question was asked on 30 November 1999 and answered at an unknown time.