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

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The Arguments Against Physicalism Are Just a Hundred % Effective

Physicists think that they have answers to all these questions that are purely physicalists. So there is a role for the physics arguments here. The way quantumfield theory works at a fundamental level is crystal clear on whether or not the cor theory should apply in the human brain. It's as if you did a million experiments and you said, oh, look, momentum is conserved in any experiment i've ever done. And some one comes along and says, well, i've noticed that, even though you've done a million experiments, none of them were done over the week end. That's an absurd argument. I fase. Dontlet me finish. Aes, i

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