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0:00 - Introduction


1:00 - The power of physicalism/reductionism: a tremendously powerful method


2:00 - Course on physicalism and Catholicism; Sean Carroll's least hysterical "poetic naturalism"


3:00 - The lack of evidence for "emergence" in the sense of "downward causation"


3:30 - Soft and hard emergence


10:15 - Materialism vs. physicalism and reductionism: philosophical materialism


13:00 - Are human beings exhausted by this account of reality?


14:00 - The break with the mechanical universe of 19th century physics underappreciated


15:00 - Laplace's demon


16:30 - Thermodynamics


17:30 - Future not contained in the present


19:00 - Einstein & hidden variables


20:00 - Bell inequality experiments


24:00 - Entanglement


26:00 - Human experience: both, as physical, but also as having choices


27:00 - Quantum physics on many body systems


28:00 - The hard problem of consciousness


29:00 - The explanatory gap


31:00 - The tendency to explain the brain as "just like" some recent piece of technology


33:00 - Complexity of neurons, the continuing relevance of physical laws amid the complexity


35:00 - Continuing relevance of quantum effects at the level of neurotransmitter molecules, etc.


36:00 - Quantum effects in weather and rock mechanics