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306. Stephon Alexander — Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Stefan Zuckerman: "There's something at its foundation that's just not comprehensible by the human mind" But it does things that we can predict. And maybe this unit of consciousness is some subunit of consciousness, like the electric charge in an electron," he says. He thinks one way into this was to think about fields and how they interact with each other.

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