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Sean Carroll and Barry Loewer: What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?

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i've got the sense that these colours are, ou know, intrinsic features of the world. And i can't understand how physics can explain how these things can these colours. So i go, ok, so physics is wrongit can't explain, never mind, it can't explain my mind. But nobody trusts that intuition. Nobody says, physics can't explain paint. No, they say, you're misconceptualising what properties things have. You think they have these irreducible colours. But actually, somehow that's a feature of of us that we project on to them. I cave. That's an interesting psychological fact about us, and perhaps not all of us

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