Quantum Mechanics

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News

Date
October 29, 2019

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Adam Frank, Featured, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Physics}

Astrophysicist: Materialism Is on Shaky Ground

_{Adam Frank ponders the fact that materialism entirely fails to explain consciousness} _{News

October 29, 2019

Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Frank’s computational research group has developed advanced supercomputer tools to study how stars form and die. So he would incline to a materialist view, surely? But no, he says, quantum physics blew all that away. And some neuroscientists just haven’t caught up.

Why Do Atheists Still Claim Free Will Can’t Exist?

_{Sam Harris reduces everything to physics but then ignores quantum non-determinism} _{Eric Holloway

August 12, 2019

Philosophy of Mind}

A reader, listening to his podcast with computer scientist Judea Pearl, asks how he can be so sure everything is determined by physical forces. How indeed?