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David Wolpert: What Can We Really Know About That Which We Cannot Even Imagine? No Free Lunch

Mind-Body Solution

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Consciousness as a Fiction

They discuss the concept of consciousness as a fictional story we create for control, mentioning experiments on decision-making and the effects of corpus callosum severance. They argue that consciousness is reducible to physics and mathematics, and emphasize the importance of including observational apparatus details in predicting physical experiment results.

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