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Sean Carroll: Is Consciousness Emergent?

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Is There a Materialist Account of Consciousness?

Philip: We have a certain er grasp of what consciousness is that positively shows us it can't just be some complex configuration of physical structures. So, you know, as keith says, there are these many philosophical arguments which try to show that we couldn't give a physicalist account of consciousness in the way we've given a materialist account of heat and lightning or something. Wih, now, ooksi, this leads into probably what, but phillip's going to ask next,. because i i suspect what the line that some people haud come back with here is, it's not just that we don't understand consciousness, that it's like just now what is

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