8 January 2018 - self-aware electrons

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Are electrons self-aware? How would you know, have you ever talked philosophy with one? If they are, then we don’t understand the physics; what is consciousness? If they are not, then consciousness arises from unconsciousness and we don’t understand how. The nature of our ignorance depends on a question that we can’t ask.

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