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Donald Hoffman: What is Reality?

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The Complexity of Conscious Agents

I'm still having a bit of difficulty because you're talking about this when you talk about the conscious agents got a couple of lot of structure in it okay. How do they build how do these really complex conscious agents I mean I know this is a very naive question but I better just ask him then, he says. What's his theory? Our theory predicts that there is one conscious agent and it says specifically that you can go to a left zero a left one a left two but you can never get to the one so our ontology is this there is one and only one conscious agent  and all the other conscious agents are projections of the one as if we were looking through an interface

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