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

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The Effects of Mental Properties on the Physical Behavior of the Electron

Physicists may worry that this isn't saying anything at all because still everything the electrons do is just governed by the laws of physics. What underlies it in reality is a whole bunch of minds or experiences pushing and pulling each other, he says. "It's wildly speculative of course it is but is it ruled out way anything we know I think not"

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