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AMA | June 2022
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
How to Change the Laws of Physics in a Dramatic Way
The way the laws of physics work is that the electron ield at every point in space only responds to what other fields are doing. That's just a bedrock feature of quantumfield theory. So you're perfectly allowed to say, well, maybe it's not like that in a brain. Now, number one, there's zero motivation in physics to do that. All your motivation is from philosophical thought experiments. And in my mind, the fundamental physics understanding is enormously more sophisticated than the philosophical thought experiments are so i trust them much more. But as soon as you let's put it this way, can't jut, it's not ok to just say,Well, maybe let's be
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