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Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality

The TED Interview

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Is There a Conscious Sea of Agents in the Universe?

Reality is this very complex sea of conscious agents interacting with each other, he says. And and they have builttat the physical world that we see it as a creation of consciousness. Some people who've looked at this problem have said, the only way to understand consciousness is to assume that it's embedded in everything in the universen. But you're saying, no, it's actually em put the consciousness first. When agents interact, it turns out the mathematics says you get a new agent. So by thei get to a person, there thereis this huge network of agents, quadrillions upon quadrillions of agents ind in a vast network,. all interacting in ta

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