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Sean Carroll and Barry Loewer: What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?

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I Don't Think Physicalist Reductionism Can Work

Soso: I'm open to strong emergentism in a panpsychist version, someone like david charmers would have non panpsychist sions of it. So i think that reflection on physics has just very little evidential force in deciding this issue of whether consciousness is strongly emergent. Why is that? Well, look, either the philosophical arguments against reduction work or they don't work. But so my conclusion from that is, you know, either panpsychist reductionism is true, or strong emergenciesm is true. Ah, ok, nearly done. Here's the things i think we should discuss, although open to people have other thoughts. The first and perhaps main thing

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