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Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality

The TED Interview

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Are We Just Machines?

Yestoy was a fairly geeky teen ager, and i had very interesting pressures on me. For me, the question boiled down to, are we just machines, right? It seemed, from the work in artificial intelligenced and physicalist theories at that we're just machines. On the other hand, there's i sodthing, the personal experience, that we seem to be more than just machines. And i decided that that was really and interesting. Who who am i? What kind of creatures are we?

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