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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Black Cat Is the Home Cat

There is no notion of self in my fundamental definition of a conscious agent. There are only experiences and probabilistic relationships that of how they trigger other experiences. Annika Harris rightly cautions me that people will think that I'm bringing in a notion of a self or agency when I say conscious agent. But it's just a shout out to the black cat.

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