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What Are Your Views on Consciousness?
One of your deeper interests is psychology, understanding human behavior. How do you think we can take psychology from where it's been in the 20th century to something more like what physicists are doing? Well, we could do it by finding the physical foundations of psychology, right? If all of our emotions and moods and feelings and behaviors are the result of mechanical behaviors of atoms and molecules in our brains, then can we find correlations? Perhaps chaos makes that really difficult... We can't know the position and velocity of every single quantum state in a brain, probably. But I think that if we can get to that point with psychology, then we can start to think about consciousness in a physical and