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Donald Hoffman: What is Reality?

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The Challenges of Integrating Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory

In the entire history of our field not one proposal yet not one where you say this specific pattern of integrated information theory must be the taste of chocolate for these principled reasons. There's literally nothing on so there is no specific conscious experience that's ever been explained from first principles by global workspace theory neuromicrotubules integrated information and so forth. I think a good metaphor here is I mean if you look at your desktop I'm seeing all sorts of icons on my desktop and things I can click on they're real they're real parts of my interface but if I want to give a theory of the M2 processor in my Mac right now and I'm going to use the language of the icons

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