Physicist says the 'hard problem of consciousness' isn't real

When Carlo Rovelli's bicycle chain comes off, he calls a bike-shop mechanic, never a particle physicist — even though particle physics technically governs every bolt on the thing. The Italian quantum-gravity theorist uses that fact to swat away one of the loudest arguments in philosophy of mind, in a long essay for Noema titled "There Is No 'Hard Problem Of Consciousness.'" — Read the rest The post Physicist says the 'hard problem of consciousness' isn't real appeared first on Boing Boing.