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

The Symbolic World

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Reductionism Is Doomed

M physicists themselves recognize that the standard reductionist approach is doomed. They are looking at these what they call u v i r interactions. So the ultra violet is as you go into smaller and smaller scales, but i r is going to the bigger and bigger scales. The physicists are trying to wrap their heads around this. But brilliant physicists are making real progress on this. And i ma be very interesting. Now that's doing it within space time. I'm trying to work on this kind of thing outside of space time, were the notion of spacial scale no longer holds. There is a different notion of self similarity in terms of,. for example, the number of conscious experiences that an agent

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