Consciousness All the Way Down? (Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Problem Is Not a Scientific Problem
Einstein found notions of spooky action at a diction, at a distance implausible. He solved that problem with gravity, and wanted to rule it out at the quantum level by saying that entanglement wouldn't happen. So science is about nature's behavior and convenient fictions. And those convenient fictions are convenient because nature seems to behave as though they existed. But there is no fundamental scientific commitment to the fictions. We never measure the higgs boson directly. What we measure is what it decays in, tits, the footprints of the hicks. I angrythat the problem is not a scientific problem. That's a metaphysical problem of materialism.
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