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Donald Hoffman PHD - USER INTERFACE THEORY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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Is There a Top Down Causation?

I think the higher level causation thing is an intimate part of the whole framework that I'm working on. So yes, to the extent that the notion of causation even applies, there would be top down as well as bottom up. But in George's case I'll just mention one technical thing and that is that we can build quantum computers with for example a controlled knot gate. If you try to propose his downward causation in a physicalist reduction as framework, or forget the reduction of just a physicalist framework, then I think that he's going to get endless pushback and it probably won't fly.

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