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AMA | November 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Qualitative Jump From Cat to Human Intelligence?

I suspect that indeed the wave function of the universe is a way of talking about the universe as a single unified monistic thing. The world is clearly divisible in a pretty clear way, but it's also very useful to divide it up into subfactors. So I think that the categories of being fundamentally one or being fundamentally multiple don't fit very easily onto the question of what the universe really is would be my take.

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