(2) What did Max Planck mean by saying, 'I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness.'? - Quora

(2) What did Max Planck mean by saying, 'I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness.'? - Quora: It has been remarked that it is unfortunate that quantum physics was born prior to information theory.� Prior to quantum physics there was a Cartesian duality of mind and matter as two separate things being different in substance.� Quantum theory implies that that they are not really different at all.� Information theory identifies them both as having an information nature.� Since information theory had not yet seen the light of day, early quantum physicists called it consciousness rather than information processing.� What we think of as physical things are memory objects (memes) having being remembered as their only substance.