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In what way does the problem of mind appear in physics? What made Roger Penrose state:
Mind is part of our Universe and any physical theory, which does not duly incorporate it, drops hopelessly behind the adequate description of the world.
The drama of contemporary mind is that, having solved the mystery of the Universe, it replaced it with another one — the mystery of itself.
Alexandre Koyré
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Bushev, M. (2003). On Human Agency in Physics. In: Ginev, D. (eds) Bulgarian Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 236. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0961-3_6
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