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

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Is There Strong Emergence in the Brain?

In terms of the the matter of our body and brains, you can bring them together in wat t is referred to as the cor theory. So sharn thinks we have good reason to that's the correct and complete theory of the matter in our bodies and brains. But i think shawn is just theorizing about reality on the basis of experiments. I think the reality of consciousness itself is a hard datum that u should inform our theorizing aboutreality. Because consciousness is real, reductionism doesn't work. So it must be strongly emergent. And for the reason ace i've said, i don't think weve got any significant reason to deny strong emergence.

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