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

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Are We Thinking in the Back of Our Minds?

Feynman was an important guy. Why didn't it spread from Feynman to others? He must have told others about it. No, I mean, it's right there in the Feynman lectures, it's there in the character of physical law, and no one paid attention. It's like Feynman is very explicit about hating philosophers. Yep. There's a lot of self-hate in that. But he is actually pretty good at it except for his explicit statements about it. So yeah, so Feynman, like you said, Edington, even Boltzmann suggested it as one of the possible things,. That we begin in a state of low entropy

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