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Physicalism and Black and White Mary

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Is it true that consciousness is purely physical? The most famous argument against this point of view is the story of Black and White Mary.   Music: Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Third Movement, Orion Quartet  Licensed … Continue reading →

Free will, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and the infinite dance

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Physicists know all about simple nonlinear systems. Under some circumstances they display a strange kind of behavior that is not quite deterministic and yet not chaotic in the usual sense of the word. You might say it’s orderly disorder. Is … Continue reading →