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Physicist says the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ isn’t real

Ellsworth Toohey
May 08, 2026
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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 titl…

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