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

The TED Interview

CHAPTER

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

The mind body problem has troubled philosophers for hundreds, probly thousands of years. We as scientists in cogninero science have come up with really detailed correlations between brain activity and conscious experiences but no way to explain them. This is where our current scientific theories stop. It says there need new ideas that could radically transform our whole framework for doing science. And if it's an illusion, we want a scientific theory that explains why the illusion is happening.

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