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Donald Hoffman PHD - USER INTERFACE THEORY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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The Mathematical Bridge Between the Hard Sciences and the Conceptual

Physicists are daily inventing conceptual mathematical structures outside of the constrictions of space time to sort of venture deeper hidden realities. For an outsider, the proposing of these conceptual mathematical dimensions seems almost as much of a mental construct as any of the concepts from the social sciences. And yet because it's math, we sort of venerate it as high sciences we do with the hard sciences and the funding flows. I think it's a very important bridge in bringing these frankly paradigm busting ideas that we can permit us to push beyond these deep physicalist assumptions.

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