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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Theory of Consciousness
Most of the theories that i have seen in consciousness assume that space time is fundamental. Assume that somehow nerval activity in humans, and perhaps other kinds of more complex activity in a is creates, creates consciousness. The very founding assumptions contradicts our best physics. And it also contradicts evolution of natural selection,. Natural selection makes it very clear that the sensory systems of any organism tell them no truths about objective reality. They tell but, but they tell organism, sensory systems evolve to tell organisms how to behave in order to stay alive - period. That's it. So that it's really the case that the acts of observation are fact creations, not fact discoveries.
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