
The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald Hoffman
Evolution 2.0
00:00
The Gold Standard in Science Isn't Pure Review
Evolution by natural selection is a mathematically precise theory. The probability of zero that anything we see, so space and time, the shapes of objects, the colors, the positions, even the very existence of these objects, independent of our perceptions, the probability is zero. So you know, teinstein's question, is the moon there when no one looks? Evolution answers no. But that reality is not spacio temporal. It doesn't have physical objects like moons and nurons. It is something utterly different. And i'll just add, we may want to talk about this as well. Quantum field theory, it turns out, says the same thing, space time is not fundamental
Transcript
Play full episode