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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Concept of Laws Is Mind Dependent
I think we want the notion of science, of laws to be mind dependent in a sense. It's something that we've concocted in order to account for the facts. So it's not subjectivist or unrealistic in this bad way. And it's my view about what's macroscopic, what counts as a macroscopic state too. But fitting us all together in one giant package is something that I don't know how to do.
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