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Senior Assistant at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb | King's College London PhD | Exploring consciousness, metaphysics, and religion | Thoughts my own
I am into this idea that all physical things have an inner and outer aspect. For simpler objects like electrons or protons, the outer aspect would be describable with physics. But the inner aspect is some kind of extremely simple consciousness along with a limited ability to make choices (consistent with quantum mechanics). Combinations of things can in turn have their own inner and outer aspect. So more complex combinations might be able to physically do more things and might have a correspondingly more complex consciousness. I still think the components that are part of this system still have their own consciousness. I'm not sure how the combination consciousness forms or disappears and the combination is built or broken apart. I think this is something you study.
I have come to these ideas through reading various sources including Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's book the Phenomenon of Man and also John Conway's Free Will Theorem.
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