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Donald Hoffman PHD - USER INTERFACE THEORY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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Seeing the Truth Would Make You Extinct

When you had organisms of equal complexity competing, the ones that saw the truth went extinct. They didn't reproduce nearly as fast as those that saw none of the truth and just tuned to the fitness payoffs. So what we get again is that objects are simply a convenient way of representing the payoffs that we would get if we act in certain ways.

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