{"id":131872,"date":"2021-12-06T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/sean-carroll-is-consciousness-emergent"},"modified":"2021-12-06T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:22:50","slug":"sean-carroll-is-consciousness-emergent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/sean-carroll-is-consciousness-emergent","title":{"rendered":"Sean Carroll: Is Consciousness Emergent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qcCEZzNCNBI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll joins us to discuss whether it make sense to think of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, and whether contemporary physics points in this direction.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed Sean\u2019s essay responding to Philip\u2019s book \u2018Galileo\u2019s Error,\u2019 and Philip\u2019s counter-response essay. Both are available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/conscienceandconsciousness.com\/2021\/08\/01\/19-essays-on-galileos-error\/\">https:\/\/conscienceandconsciousness.com\/2021\/08\/01\/19-essays-on-galileos-error\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also discussed Philip\u2019s Scientific American article making the case that the move from the fine-tuning to the multiverse commits the \u2018inverse gambler\u2019s fallacy\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/our-improbable-existence-is-no-evidence-for-a-multiverse\/#:~:text=We%20exist%2C%20and%20we%20are\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/our-improbable-ex\u202620we%20are<\/a>, with%20the%20existence%20of%20life.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Keith and Philip discussed the PhilPapers 2020 survey of philosophers\u2019 opinions on philosophical questions, which is linked to from this blog post of Philip\u2019s: <a href=\"https:\/\/conscienceandconsciousness.com\/2021\/11\/01\/materialism-remains-the-majority-view-but-only-just\/\">https:\/\/conscienceandconsciousness.com\/2021\/11\/01\/materialis\u2026only-just\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll joins us to discuss whether it make sense to think of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, and whether contemporary physics points in this direction. We discussed Sean\u2019s essay responding to Philip\u2019s book \u2018Galileo\u2019s Error,\u2019 and Philip\u2019s counter-response essay. Both are available here: https:\/\/conscienceandconsciousness.com\/2021\/08\/01\/19-essays-on-galileos-error\/ We also discussed Philip\u2019s Scientific American article making [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}