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Donald Hoffman: What is Reality?

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The Self-Reference of Conscious Agents

Hoffman: There doesn't seem to be anything in that description that invokes the kind of things that people often evoke when they talk about consciousness. So I'm going to use only the the language of conscious agents and the Markovian dynamics of it to actually construct networks of conscious agents which will now for example construct an interface. "Neurology is going to be much more complicated but that's what we're going so neuroscience has to to muscle up to a much more difficult level," he says.

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