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Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality

The TED Interview

CHAPTER

The Theory of Conscious Agents

We're mistaking a limit of our interpace for insight into realityb, but the actual agenty themselves. At the simplest level, things like, i feel lighter, i feel darker, i sense red, i don't sense redttt. There's all these different, sort a binery a pieces that can gradually come together in a more sophisticated consciousnesss. We're working ut the mathematics fow that all integrates. And i guess the hope is you can use this to make a prediction that traditional science never got t o.

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