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AMA | April 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Creativity, Invention, Discovery, Et Et Cetera

Cristo penonsky, peronsk says he doesn't get how creative invention and discovery are possible in the fully deterministic block universe. He argues that there is no such thing as temperature, pressure or trop any of those things - only when you have incomplete information at a higher level does it become useful to talk about them. The fact that you can't derive oughts from is is just logic,. There's literally nothing other than that. And i think that's the way the world actually works. That's what moral constructivism is all about.

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