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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

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

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The Nature of Consciousness

I would actually think of it as a version of property dualism okay that is the quantum wave function is real it's got an existence that has nothing to do with the mind. Under certain circumstances physical systems will produce consciousness under certain circumstances that consciousness will collapse the quantum wavefunction. The idea we started working with was there's something special about consciousness or maybe about the physical correlates of consciousness so that it resists quantum superposition everything in the world mass and charge can evolve into quantum superpositions but maybe there are some special properties that resist them.

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