Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.