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Sean Carroll - Physics of Consciousness

2024-06-18 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Sign up for a free Closer To Truth account to receive special members-only benefits: https://closertotruth.com/ How to explain our inner awareness that is at once most common and most mysterious? Traditional explanations focus at the level of neuron and neuronal circuits in the brain. But little real progress has motivated some to look much deeper, into the laws of physics — information theory, quantum mechanics, even postulating new laws of physics. Subscribe to the Closer To Truth podcast wherever you listen: https://shorturl.at/mtJP4 Watch more videos on consciousness as all physical: https://shorturl.at/PKpOk Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on fundamental physics and cosmology. Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

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@dntfrthreapr 2024-09-07

The waitress comes over and says: "ok, I'ma have to ask you to leave"

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@rochford59 2024-06-19

Don't you enjoy listening to these guy's verbally thrash out their differences,so much passion!!

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@courtlaw1 2024-11-25

How come all our conversations are not like this. I could listen to these two talk all day.

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@Ed-quadF 2024-06-18

Sooo much fun. Put a smile on my face, literally and figuratively.

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@faulypi 2024-07-14

From the moment the new Sean is activated, it becomes a completely separate conscious entity. Initially, its responses may closely mirror those of the original Sean, but over time, their experiences will diverge, leading to distinct consciousnesses. This is because consciousness is shaped by individual experiences and interactions, which cannot be identically replicated. Understanding that each consciousness is unique, even if they share an origin, is key to grasping this concept. The divergence is inevitable as each entity encounters different stimuli and processes them independently.

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@camdenbarkley1893 2024-06-20

Kirk: “Beam me up Scotty!” [molecular copy, delete, Kirk dies, molecular paste on the Enterprise] Scotty: “Did it work?” Kirk: “Yep!”

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@ReasonRationality112 2024-09-07

Jean nailed the conscious wooo woo in my opinion and in the opinion.. it’s clearly an evolutionary advantage ( and as many evolutionary advantages also have not so good side effects) .. I have no portion thinking I’m different from yesterday and still a evolution of me

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@edwardlee2794 2025-09-04

This time, I first heard of Dr Sean holds a view on consciousness contradictory to his previous view on a debate with an ordained Buddhist science..in that Dr Sean argued that consciousness ended when the physical body ended. That argument is more convincing and scientific. Always captivated to Sean Carroll s exposition. Thanks for the efforts and keep up the good work.

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@jmanj3917 2024-06-20

0:12 Alright!! My Second and Third favorite JHU Bluejays...lol 😎

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@thelemetric 2025-09-13

god I love this so much. like sparing or a dance combined. the photography and editing are actually wonderful.

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