Quantum mechanics on consciousness?

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In his book, <i>The Age of Spiritual Machines</i>, Kurzweil makes the claim that he derives from quantum mechanics that a universe that does not eventually evolve consciousness to apprehend its existence can not exist.

I'm not particularly well-versed in quantum mechanics - to my mind, it involves primarily very bizarre behavior of subatomic particles - but I've never heard of any such physical law. How is Kurzweil getting this position on consciousness from quantum mechanics? From what law does he derive this idea?
 
There are many "New Age" social scientists that try to use terminology from "hard" physics to perk-up their little game of trying to figure-out themselves and the members of their pseudo-scientific fraternity. It all boils down to the age old philosophical question, "Can Man's brain ever comprehend itself?"
 
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