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245 - Prof. Donald Hoffman - Proving Ancient Wisdom Through Mathematics

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Numer: I'm very interested in consciousness and what's called the hard problem of consciousness. How is consciousness related to physical systems like our brainsr or possibly artificial intelligences? So i decided, instead of starting with physics and trying to boot up consciousness, since evolutionary theory tells me that space time itself is just a use or interface, let me start the other way. Numer proposed this mathematical theory then you can look at its projection, for example, back into space and time, and then a better look evolution by natural selection. The first is a theory about theorem from evolution, the next is a leap beyond evolution. But the constraint is this leap better project back down to space time

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