Consciousness and free will are not illusions: being emergent and non-fundamental is exactly as real as a table is.
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. Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428youtube.com · 22 Apr 2024 · 2:06:15 into the videoAll korrents from this video
Their wordsThat’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.