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    "Carlo Rovelli",
    "Consciousness",
    "David Chalmers",
    "philosophy",
    "philosophy of mind",
    "qualia",
    "Science",
    "a long essay for Noema titled \"There Is No 'Hard Problem Of Consciousness.'\"",
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  "textContent": "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 \n\nThe post Physicist says the 'hard problem of consciousness' isn't real appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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