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Donald Hoffman PHD - USER INTERFACE THEORY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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The Hard Problem Has Been Solved

Many of your colleagues say that the correlates are strong enough for us to say that with time, you know, Patricia Churchland and Antonio Damasio. But my attitude is this. Neuroscientists are still physicalists in the old sense of assuming that space time and time and physical objects are fundamental reality and also reductionists. As we go to smaller and smaller scales, at some point, as you try to measure smaller aspects of space and time, you eventually can't. When you get to 10 to the minus 33 centimeters, space time doesn't even make sense anymore. So it's a fact that because of gravity, reductionism is false. We don't live in reductions to universe.

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