
Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality
The TED Interview
Is Death Just a Consciousness Stepping Out of the Inter Pace?
When you die, the parts of your brain that are the current corelates of your consciousness get dispersed at some point. So this has led me to rethink the relationship of science and spirituality. In a physicalist framework, it's pretty clear that if your brain causes consciousness, and your brain, then your conscious experiences are gone. I'm going to be exploring the mathematics, but it opens up a hope where there isn't any in the other. The math is smarter than the scientist who writes it down; we do scientific theories.
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