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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is Consciousness Outside of Space Time?
Theory of consciousness is a fairly complicated subject. We need to look at consciousness qua consciousness, not as something that arises in space and time but perhaps as something that creates space and time as a data structure. What do we want? Here again, there's no hard and fast rule, but what you as a scientist have to do is to pick what you think are the minimal assumptions that are going to allow you to boot up a comprehensive theory. That is the trick. The reason I want few primitives was because those are the miracles of the theory,. Those are the things you're not going to explain. These are the thingsYou assume. So you're saying size doesn't matter
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