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=xgg4KC0JPYWnH0fU Philip Goff: Is physics different in the brain? https://www.youtube.com/live/wlyKdirhOa4?si=RRYXSUbW8As7sRLw Papers:  Carroll: Consciousness and the Laws of Physics (2021) https://philarchive.org/archive/CARCAT-33 Goff’s response to critics: https://philpapers.org/archive/GOFPCF.pdf The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07884 Relevant 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/