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by amelius
989 days ago
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Not the parent commenter, but perhaps this helps: 1. Some people believe that conscious awareness exists on top of physics. I.e., something happens and conscious awareness notes that it happens. Here there is a flow of information going from physics to (our) conscious awareness. But not necessarily in the other direction. 2. The above (1) is not likely to be the true. We discuss conscious awareness in this physical world. Hence physics "knows" that conscious awareness exists, and thus there is at least also a flow of information in the other direction. One might go further, and start questioning whether it is physics that does not really exist, and only our conscious awareness exists ... |
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I've often heard some hand-wavy remarks about quantum physics, but they're largely unconvincing.
For example, a wavefunction will collapse because we use e.g. photons to measure a particle as it enters one of two slits. It's the act of measurement, not the introduction of a conscious mind, that causes the collapse. So that doesn't track.