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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

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The Importance of Mathematics in Physics

In physics, we don't get confused with the difference between objects and ideas. Physics is solving this affair for itself very elegantly by restraining itself to part of reality that can be described as short algebraic equations. And everything else that doesn't fit into these equations physicists ignore and they call it chemistry or biology - other people. But I don't know that mathematics is equipped to answer cosmological questions of purpose, of meaning, of future. There is nothing alienating about the languages of physics. It's just that languages are also talking about stuff like consciousness.

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