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Donald Hoffman PHD - USER INTERFACE THEORY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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Is Consciousness an Illusion?

I think that many physicists and many scientists we have assumed that space and time and matter are fundamental. We're still thinking in terms of other like conscious less physical universes that have all these different structures. There's no like five dimensions of space instead of four or you know a different kind of topology than we could ever imagine here. But they would all be these non personal non conscious universes out there. And so many of my colleagues and many of them good friends of mine or colleagues will say that consciousness is an illusion.

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