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

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We Shouldn't Give Up Our Concepts

We're muchless introspective than philosophers think. The illusion, if you like, is that the world ispacked with qualities in that sense. I but what e, we know? Nobody suggest we revise ordinary e ways of talking about ourselves and describing o. We can't derive tables and chairs from the standard model of particle physics,. But we're pretty sure they're completely compatible with the standard model. So i think that theres just knowing the underlying laws of physics leaves plenty to still be explained in understanding the dynamics of the lower levels. Maybe we could some day.

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