72 - The Core Theory vs. Strong Emergence

The core theory, weak and strong emergence, micro-reductionism, and Sean Carroll’s skeptical argument against everything. Is Dr. Carroll correct in holding that physics has ruled out the afterlife, the soul, fundamental consciousness, parapsychology, and other immaterialist claims? Linktree Sean Carroll speaking to the Freedom From Religion Foundation https://youtu.be/40eiycH077A?si=xgg4KC0JPYWnH0fUPhilip Goff: Is physics different in the brain? https://www.youtube.com/live/wlyKdirhOa4?si=RRYXSUbW8As7sRLwPapers: Carroll: Consciousness and the Laws of Physics (2021) https://philarchive.org/archive/CARCAT-33Goff’s response to critics: https://philpapers.org/archive/GOFPCF.pdfThe Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07884Relevant blog posts from Carroll: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01/04/the-world-of-everyday-experience-in-one-equation/https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/23/the-laws-underlying-the-physics-of-everyday-life-are-completely-understood/https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/29/seriously-the-laws-underlying-the-physics-of-everyday-life-really-are-completely-understood/https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/10/01/one-last-stab/https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/07/18/the-effective-field-theory-of-everyday-life-revisited/https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/05/23/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2008/02/18/telekinesis-and-quantum-field-theory/