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

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The Cor Theory Isn't the Point of the Cor Theory

"It's clearly not incoherent that there may be, it may be tat thathe dy dynamics change in complex system," he says. "That's clearly a coherent hypothesis, right? Start that man." But the rules of modern physics are that the all of the particles and fields in that hydrogen atom obey an equation with the following character: The field at any one point in space only feels the influence of other fields at exactly the same point in space. That is why it is literally not possible, in that framework, for the hydrogen atom to know whether it is in a brain or not".

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