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Carroll --------------------------------------------------------------------- [small] Authors Sean M. Carroll California Institute of Technology We have a much better understanding of physics than we do of consciousness. I consider ways in which intrinsically mental aspects of fundamental ontology might induce modifications of the known laws of physics, or whether they could be relevant to accounting for consciousness if no such modifications exist. I suggest that our current Abstract knowledge of physics should make us skeptical of hypothetical modifications of the known rules, and that without such modifications it's hard to imagine how intrinsically mental aspects could play a useful explanatory role. Draft version of a paper submitted to Journal of Consciousness Studies, special issue responding to Philip Goff's Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. Keywords consciousness physics Consciousness and Physics, Misc in Philosophy of Cognitive Categories Science Mind-Body Problem, General in Philosophy of Mind (categorize this paper) [preference] Edit this record [edit-copy] Mark as duplicate Options [document-s] Export citation[subind] [google] Find it on Scholar [user-trash] Request removal from index [edit-find-] Revision history Download options PhilArchive copy [Sean M. Carroll, Consciousness and the Laws of Physics] PhilArchive page | Other versions External links * This entry has no external links. Add one. Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server Configure custom proxy (use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy) Through your library * Only published works are available at libraries. References found in this work BETA The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.David J. Chalmers - 1996 - Oxford University Press. Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap.Joseph Levine - 1983 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 64 (October):354-61. The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself.Sean Carroll - 2016 - Dutton. Deprioritizing the A Priori Arguments Against Physicalism.Richard Brown - 2010 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 17 (3-4):47-69. Integrated Information Theory: From Consciousness to Its Physical Substrate.Giulio Tononi, Melanie Boly, Marcello Massimini & Christof Koch - 2016 - Nature Reviews Neuroscience 17 (7):450--461. Add more references Citations of this work BETA No citations found. Add more citations Similar books and articles Analytics Added to PP index 2021-07-15 Total views 1,984 ( #1,707 of 2,437,930 ) Recent downloads (6 months) 1,984 ( #91 of 2,437,930 ) How can I increase my downloads? 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