The physicist aims to demystify the principles of modern physics for lay readers. He takes a scientific approach to novel writing as well. You need not have a PhD in physics to read Sean Carroll’s new ...

A recent interview with the well-known physicist Sean Carroll on “the physics of consciousness” gives us a great example of a reductive physicalist view of consciousness and the world around us. In it ...

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(via Big Think) Physicist Sean Carroll explores the unsettling implications of classical mechanics, from Newton’s laws to Laplace’s thought experiment, showing how determinism challenges the very idea ...