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#212 Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality; Perception, Consciousness, And Reality

The Dissenter

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Is There a Reality in the Virtual World? I'm Trying to Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness

If we could reproduce that same sort of interface in the virtual world then supposedly people wouldn't be able to distinguish it from the interface that they have from this world. I've been playing with the idea that I'm trying to solve the hard problem of consciousness though I call conscious agents. The ultimate reality is a vast social network of interacting conscious agents that can have conscious experiences and that can then affect the conscious experiences of other agents by their choices.

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