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Consciousness and free will are not illusions: being emergent and non-fundamental is exactly as real as a table is.

Drawn from what Sean Carroll said

What this subject means

consciousness What it is for there to be something it is like to be a system, and whether that can be measured.

Emergence

Can a machine be conscious?under our view: Consciousness is something a physical system does, real even though it is not fundamental

What Sean Carroll actually said

  1. Sean Carroll Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University
    That’s different than something being emergent or non-fundamental, but also real. This table is real, even though I know it’s made of atoms, that doesn’t remove the realness from the table. I think that consciousness and free will and things like that are just as real in tables and chairs.

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