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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's the Role of Consciousness?
The standard approach to consciousness is to figure out what complicated systems of matter with the right functional properties could possibly lead to the emergence of consciousness. There's, for example, that consciousness arises from orchestrated collapse of quantum states of microtubules and neurons. And my attitude is our best science is telling us that space time is not fundamental. So why is that important here? Well, for centuries, deep thinkers thought of earth, air, fire, and water as the fundamental elements. It was a reductionist kind of idea. But now we know that if you really want to get fundamental, the periodic table isn't good enough. You're going to go to quarks, leptons,
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