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

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is There a Theory of Everything?

No theory in science will ever explain everything, i would love to see if joyosha a agrees, o disagrees. But then there are as many, if you're computational, the's only countable number of em or in my case, i don't knowit may be an uncountable number of conscious agents. In that way, you could say, well, yet, the one agent has free will ands this probability, but i can actually do some non trivial unpacking of that notion throughout the network. So there is the possibility here, ofmean, ultimately, there will be a primitive notion of free will that that is just primitive and not explained.

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