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Robert Edward Grant - Think Tank

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The Disappointment of Consciousness

I think that there's still a lot of hesitance among my colleagues in the sciences about the idea that space time is not fundamental and so forth, especially my colleagues who in cognitive neuroscience. And when some of them like my good friend Steven Pinker points out in his book that like he likes the global workspace theory of consciousness, but he points out that it doesn't explain any specific conscious experiences. Well, I'm not explaining them either. I assume conscious experiences. But what I do is I try to explain the physical world too. So I'm assuming less. They're assuming the physical world and they're assuming consciousness. And I can make an Occam's razor argument if I only

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