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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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I'm Not a Human Being. Is it a New Agent?

We become a person around the age of one and a half to two and a half, roughly. And most children that i observed, and they disappoint, a person that is different from before emerges in their mind. It's not that there is nobody there before. I just tat a thing before is different. They all exist to tell a story to the organism that is useful for the organism to model the world. So it creates an agent that is observing this w universe, that is embedded in this universe. This is the story that my mind tells itself. Is an additional thing, my consciousness doesn't have an identity. My consciousness is also not of the nature that it's the same

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