Donald Hoffman: What is Reality?
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The Purpose of Consciousness
Bertrand Russell inspired pancake panpsychist view that consciousness breathes fire into the equations of physics. Why not just take what physicists are giving us and fill it out with consciousness why do we need more, says physicist Akani Akani. "I hope you cut my my kids screaming in the background but hopefully it's not audible," he adds about his own family members' screams as they try to keep a quiet conversation going. 'Why can't those structures be fundamental i i didn't pick up a thought that they wouldn't be well there is something called amplitude hedon,' asks philosopher Tom Hölzle.
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