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Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality

The TED Interview

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Is There a Realm of Conscious Agents?

How does your theory relate to what we actually see in the world? Has it changed how you react with other with other entities that you believe to be conscious, for example, animals or ther other objects? Great question. So i think a good analogy here is, or good example of is just to look in the mirror. We use it systematically to infer a conscious experience of another person. Our user interface gives us certain symbols, like bodies and faces, that are a portal into this pre existing realm of conscious agents. But they're pointing truly, but it's clouded. Mean, there's lot that's going on inside of you that i'll never know.

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