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David Papineau: How Does Consciousness Connect Us To Reality?

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Isn't It a Constraint on the More Complex Structures?

If we know enough about the fine grain mechanisms, thatimpos a constraint on what that the more complex structures can do. It seems to me no, this cald have to be some interaction yetther minet ultimately would have been some theory of how emergent causal power capacities co determined the evolution of the brain. So youare going to see i urons firing for reasons that theoro scientist can't tand you'r going to find atoms moving aboutdchairlit for reasons that physicists can't detect. And you're going to find the troding equation doing thingsa the way function doing things. The thought is that physicists know the causal capacities of particles and fields, chemists

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