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#89: Consciousness, Perception & Reality - Donald Hoffman, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Is It Enlightening?

Yethats: I think there are a lot of really good ideas in buddhism and other mystical traditions where they're taking consciousness to be fundamental. So when i build a mathematical model of consciousness, i see in the mathematics itself that if i'm a conscious agent nmy essence is not the particular body that i see,. The deepest entity that i am is this just pure awareness That's something that the spiritual traditions say, but it's right therejus hit you in the face in the mathematics. Yethats: There are going to be deeper and deeper mathematical models that i can use.

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