: Greene is more open to emergent phenomena (temperature, consciousness, even free will) being “real enough.” Carroll is a physicalist through and through—consciousness is how information feels when processed in a certain way, no soul, no ghost.
Carroll: "String theory is an attempt to unify the principles of quantum mechanics and general relativity. By postulating that the fundamental strings vibrate at different frequencies, string theory offers a possible explanation for the diversity of particles we observe in the universe." brian greene sean carroll