If we are to explain consciousness (What is it? How is it generated?), at some point our explanation must come to:
...thus X happens and, as you can now understand, this gives rise to full consciousness.
Thus the question this text answers is: What is it you must understand?
The answer is provided in the form of eighteen steps that analyse, reverse-engineer, and reconstruct the phenomena that constitute consciousness. As the title suggests, the text digs as deep as the quantum level.
A must-read for any philosopher, physicist, computer scientist or indeed, anyone with curiosity, who has ever wondered about the ultimate nature of this universal phenomenon.
(In this 2025 updated edition the text starts with a bonus first chapter on why today's LLM AIs cannot be conscious)
