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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 Integrative Nature of Mass

The science of physics is fundamentally structural or mathematical everything is basically explained by how it relates to a to other things maybe quantum mechanics gets messy and you know everything else in contemporary physics gets even messier. I think the best option for a panpsychist here is yeah you don't need a whole bunch of extra new laws of physics for the consciousness at the basis rather it's consciousness that's fundamentally playing the causal role for the physics we know.

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