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Sean Carroll and Barry Loewer: What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?

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Physicist Reductionism

i like to give the analogy of a party. To say there's a party is just another way of saying people dancing drinking. But then when we talk about consciousness, or anything else, that's just a sort of different way of describing the stuff physics talks about. I'm kind of open to panpsychist reductionism, which would be, does it the other way round? Physics weakly emerges from consciousness. So that's one option. And then, and then, this is the view were probably mainly going to be interested in to day, strong emergentism. This is the view that consciousness strongly emerges from the physical. Because it's genuiynely new, it

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