
Donald Hoffman: What is Reality?
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The Concept of Conscious Agents
Self knowledge depends on some sort of mechanism of introspection perhaps but that would be an evolved mechanism which would be subject to the same objections. Introspecting my own mind would be as unlikely to deliver me a very difficult picture of that reality as perception or at least if my mind is part of the natural world as I tend to think it is. The biology itself is an artifact of the projection because space time is not a fact so in the theory of conscious agents now I have to say just a little bit about that theory right? Keith: Could you give us a non-technical description of it just gives you like you have a kind of thing it is absolutely.
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