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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

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Is There a Life for Consciousness?

Can you steal man the physicalist view for a brief moment playing devil's advocate too? Or steal man the person you used to be? Right. The physicalist. What's the good, like saying that you might be wrong right now, what would be a convincing argument for that? Well, I think the argument I would give and that I believed was look, when you have very simple physical systems like a piece of dirt, there's not much evidence of life for consciousness. It's only when you get really complicated physical systems like that have brains which create more complex consciousnesses. And this concept of complexity is ill-defined when you ground it to space time. well, I think

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