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AMA | November 2021

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

CHAPTER

The Impossibility of Imagining a Description

There is a linguistic thing going on where you're choosing to describe what happens in the world in terms of your first person experience. So it's not that it replaces the particles and fields, or the particles ad fields replace your experience. It says there are two different ways of talking about the same thing. And i have zero problem imagining that a bunch of particles in fields would do that. I don't see what the obstacle is. You know, our imaginations might not up to the task.

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