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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a High Consciousness in Life?
I would say consciousness and free will, for example, are very much so in the realm of philosophy currently. I don't think they will always be. And I am fine with some topics being part of a different realm than physics today because we don't have the right tools. Like there's no discrete phases. There's no discrete phase transition like that. But there might be concepts of temperature and pressure that we need to understand to describe what the high consciousness in life is that we're totally missing. Even those questions that is back to our original discussion of philosophy.
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