
Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality
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How to Boot Up Consciousness From Unconscious Ingredients
The big question is, what are the possibilities for what might really be there behind this three d inter face that we live in? Well the right answer is, of course, that i'm not surethat i don't know. But as a scientist, we have to try. We have to make testable hypotheses and see where the theories go. And so here's my motivation for the direction that i'm going. It's the hard problem of consciousness. Again, we've been trying to start with the physical world and somehow boot up our conscious experiences from activities of the physical world. That has failed so far. Let's try the other direction. Let's start with a theory of consciousness
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