Quite a few words have appeared since my last post. I do not see meaning in or understand most, mainly because my POV is 100% materialist. I.e. nerves make the mind, consciousness, our perceptions and experiences is my POV.
The mind, consciousness, etc. have evolved so probably they are useful (or at least were) to our reproduction. In conflict with most cognitive scientist who also have this materialistic POV, I think parietal tissue produces a Real Time Simulation, RTS, of the sensed external world and ourselves (but some relatively slowing changing aspects of our selves, such as memory and personality, attitudes are likely to be inputs to this RTS from other parts of the brain, especially frontal cortex for aspect of our personality.)
The accepted POV is that the RTS does not exist - instead our perception "emerges" after many stages of neural transformations (processing) of sensor information, typically making perception delayed by about 1/3 of a second.
The advantage of a creature with RTS over one with only a 1/3 second delayed perception in a life or death struggle with spear and thrown rocks should be obvious. I think the RTS first developed in our ancestors and that is why they killed off the stronger, bigger-brained Neanderthals who still had a delayed perception of the world that "emerged." I also believe the RTS developed first in a small inbreeding group in Africa, that very rapidly on an evolutionary time scale, dominated the world in what is often called the "Out of Africa" event. about 50,000 years BP.
For more on this, including some of the evidence for this POV and reasons why the accepted POV must be wrong, see:
http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=1294496&postcount=52
I will be happy to clarify your question about anything there, but cannot comment on how "space time" may related to consciousness etc. as that sort of thing is not any part of my POV, nor do I think Quantum Mechanics is evolved in any of this, but that is not certain. My POV about perception, what we are, etc. may make it possible logically for Genuine Free Will, GFW, to be compatible without appeal to "immaterial souls" etc, but I am not sure of this as the RTS must be implemented in material tissue with data stored in material tissue in my POV. If GFW exists, then this implementation can NOT be following any logical rules I am aware of, which are also contained in this material tissue, as then the entire system is material and governed by the laws of physics. I.e. it is deterministic if QM is unimportant and random if QM is important, but neither provides what I call GFW - an agent making real choices between two or more real possibilites.
Thus, I lean towards the POV that GFW is an illusion but there are logical systems that I do not understand. I.e. not all simple statements are either true or false. For example: "This sentence is false" is a simple declarative statement which has no "truth value" (is neither true nor false). Perhaps a logic exists containing a set of these self referencing statements (and/or other types) that can be embodied in a material system and yet not have all of its outcomes determined by the laws of physics? for GFW to exist an "agent" must exists and clearly only a physical body is not an agent capable of doing or thinking anything other that what the laws of physics cause.
Whether or not GFW is possible or only an illusion is not important to my POV as to how perception "works." I.e. I think the evidence for the RTS is over whelming; - that the standard POV of cognitive science is simply and demonstrably WRONG, but all "crackpots" think this about the accepted POV.