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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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Do You Think Mind or Consciousness Needs a Substrat to Run On?

"I think that's what Deepak thinks. That it is its own thing that doesn't need a material machine to run on, right? So then that takes it into a different realm," he says. Do you ever wish you could come back like 500 years from now and find out what they discovered? Like, oh, dark energy. We figured that out 200 years ago. But we didn't. I would. And you know, one of my guesses is that I think there was a Feynman court, which is like you come back and realize how stupid we were."

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