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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is There a Point at Which We Should Discard Physics?

physicalism is the notion that we live in a reality that is fully emergent over a causally closed mechanical layer, and we are in that base reality that emerges from it. The alternative to physicalism is that this base layer is somewhere else. It seems that the idea that consciousness could be primary to our reality is not true," he says. "We know our minds are playing lots of tricks with us"

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