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How to Make Use of Our Limited Time in This Tiny Part of Space with Sean Carroll

Inquiring Minds

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Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

"There really is no possible physical way that consciousness can exist outside of the biological body," he says. "We don't completely understand quanta mechanics, at least to the extent that physicists don't agree with each other about what quanta mechanics says." But it has become very, very rare for working physicists to think that consciousness has anything to do with quanta mechanics. There are some notable exceptions like Roger penrose who believe we need to modify quanta mechanics in order to make human cognition better than any artificial intelligence could reach.

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