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

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

I'm Not a Human Being. Is It a New Agent?

We become a person around the age of one and a half to two and a half, roughly. Most children that i observed, and they disappoint, a person that is different from before emerges in their mind. And you notice that there is a gap in their memories. I realize that ats some level, i don't have an identity as a human being. This is the story that my mind tells itself. Is an additional thing, my consciousness doesn’t have an identity. But soits it's not something that is shared with others, and it's notSomething that is separate from others. When the consciousness gets tight to a self model, then it becomes prospectival, and

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