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Ep. 13 - On the Freedom of Thought and Nature: Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood

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The Mind Is Inherent in Every Electron

There is nothing outside of matter in its motion. My view is the brain is essentially an amplification device that it takes molecules inside the brain which carry information and amplifies their effects so that they become large-scale. It just takes individual molecules which have this quantum freedom, which is the electrons which are moving around and the brain somehow organizes that to produce larger effects. So it is basically an amplifier. There's no evidence at all.

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