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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Can you solve the hard problem of consciousness? Why it tastes delicious when you eat a delicious ice cream with networks of conscious agents? Or is that taken as an assumption? Right now I have no neurons. If you looked, you would see neurons. That's a data structure that you would create on the fly. And it's a very useful one. As soon as you look away, you garbage collect that data structure.

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