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#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Hoffman Icon Is Just Consciousness Exploring Itself From a Particular Perspective

The hoffman icon is simply consciousness taking a perspective on itself, looking at itself through a particular space, time headset. And from that headset ite there's a finite r there was a berth. There was growing strong until youre twenties and thirties, and then forties, you start declining. Andon your eighties or nineties, you die. But in some sense, consciousness itself has learned something through that experience. It's the only story i've seen so far that at least is deep enough that is worth taking seriously.

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