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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of Quantum Mechanics

quantum mechanics is of course it's a magnet for anyone who wants to find a place for crazy properties of the mind to interact with the the physical world. I've actually been thinking about quantum mechanics in the context of a different kind of view which is more a kind of dualism with property dualism. The question for me is just can we actually make rigorous mathematical sense of the idea that it's once consciousness comes into the picture that the wave function collapses is it possible?

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