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Here's how consciousness violates the laws of physics. Imagine we made an exact clone of you. So, this person looks like you, behaves like you, they respond to questions exactly the same as you do, except they're a philosophical zombie. They lack all conscious experience. They have no inner life, and they're more like a programmed machine than an actual conscious human.
But how would we ever tell you two apart? Modern physics suggests that for something to count as existing, it has to be capable of influencing its environment. And this idea sits at the heart of quantum physics, where particle properties like its position in space and time or its spin don't actually exist until they're measured.
Now, this form of measurement does not require a conscious observer. No, it's much weirder. In this context, a measurement just means when a particle interacts with anything in its environment and leaves some sort of trace. What this means is that if something can never interact, it causes no effects and it leaves no traces, well, it's physically indistinguishable from not existing at all.
But this is the problem because from a purely physical point of view, you and your philosophical zombie twin are physically indistinguishable because the loss of consciousness appears to leave no physical trace. Which means by physics' own definition, consciousness may as well not exist at all. So which one has to give? Physics or consciousness? and get the [ __ ] off you.