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48 - Responding to Very Bad Wizards on Panpsychism

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The Richness of Subjective Experience Is Not Doing Any Work for You

It's seemingly impossible, in principle, to use any narrow scientific approach to explain why there is subjective experience. You can never describe abstract objects in a way that it will just be entailed that there are concrete instant ations of those abstract objects. That's what the hard problem is, basically. Why is it like something to be this physical activity? If there's nothing over and above the physical stuff with its physical perties, then you should be able to describe all the physical stuff,. And doesn't work like that.

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