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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 168
Those of us who think that that the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely known tend to also think that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon that must be compatible with those laws. To hold such a position in a principled way, it's important to have a clear understanding of "emergence" and when it…
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