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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Consciousness Fundamental?
The problem of how do you start with conscious experiences in the way that I've just described them is a tough technical problem, but some principle solvable. So we would solve the hard problem not by showing how brains create consciousness, but how networks of conscious agents create what we call the symbols that we call brains. "There's probably more problems to solve left than we've solved by like an infinity," he says.
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