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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Locality?

There is one conscious agent, but it has a nice analytic decomposition into as many conscious agents as you wish. It's a scale free or if you like a fractal like approach to it in which we can use the same unit of analysis at all scales in studying consciousness. Anything that we can do with neural networks or automata, you can do with networks of conscious agents. The Markovian dynamics is not restricted to computable functions because the very events themselves need not be computable. This can capture any computable theory.

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