Donald Hoffman
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2,139 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Donald Hoffman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So when we talk about the notion of explore, consciousness exploring for the joy of it,
We're going to have to rejig how we think about the notion of – for us, exploration is something that happens in an arrow of time.
What does it mean for us?
Can we wrap our heads around the notion of exploration where we let go of an increasing entropy kind of thing?
I don't know if we can.
Maybe you just have to let go of this headset altogether to really get that.
But is it possible while we're under the limits of this headset to wrap our minds around it?
We can at least get pointers to that idea.
Our mathematics led to this pointer.
And I would never even gone there unless the mathematics took me there.
So that's – so I would say that it's just like the amateur –
astronomer with a pair of binoculars could be brighter than the guy with the James Webb Space Telescope.
But he's never going to beat the guy with the James Webb Space Telescope because the guy's got better tools.
And that's what science does for you.
You may be smarter than Einstein, but if you don't actually put yourself using the tools of mathematics and so forth, that genius will never actually flower in the sense of reaching all the potential implications of what it means.
And so that's why we do science the way we do it with mathematical precision because you
For two reasons.
If our ideas are good, we probably don't understand all their implications.
And so the math will come back and it'll be our teacher.
And second, certainly our ideas have their limits.
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