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AMA | July 2023

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

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The Importance of Physicalism in Consciousness

I think that people under appreciate the extension to which consciousness is intertwined with behavior. So I see no place for anything other than physicalism to affect that behavior. Unless you're really just going to throw out all the known laws of physics and change them in some way, more power to you. But if you could do it, then that's fine. That's just science. There's no major obstacle to getting it done.

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