
Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality
The TED Interview
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
We have no idea how to start with unconscious ingredients and cook up consciousness. The riddle is, i why the experience,. um, there somemany ways into this riddle, this is one way. And in terms of the biological functioning of organisms, there is a complete scientific story that doesn't seem to need anything to feel anything. It's just as unexplainable as the appearance of a genie when aladdin rubbed his lamp. Despite all the success in nero science since huxley, all the advancements we've made, it's still magic. We have no theory that spells the magic. More correlations, hundreds of correlations, really good work about those correlations and specific
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