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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What Is a Macroscopic State?
Lewis: We don't need to change the laws of physics, we just need to find a specific microscopic situation in our macroscopic situation where the specifics would have gone differently. And that gives rise to a very deep important question, which isn't dealt with enough by people who think about statistical mechanics - what exactly is a macroscopic state? Lewis: I know what to say if I stick to thermodynamics and I know some more to say about it but here's what I think about it as a philosopher at the beginning. The other person I've talked to a lot, and maybe he's written about this, is Carlo, Carlo Raveli. He was my second ever podcast
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