Donald Hoffman

Well, my guess is at death, we take off the headset.

And maybe we lose a lot of stuff that was in the headset, but we're still aware.

but we're just not tacked into the headset anymore.

That's my best guess.

And so there, I'm completely open to being wrong, deeply wrong.

But there are near-death experiences that may or may not point to that kind of thing that people have.

I'm going to be doing, being part of a

I'm part of a film where they discuss near-death experiences.

So I talk about that possibility in the film from this point of view.

And so if I were a physicalist, it's real clear.

If the brain is somehow creating consciousness, then when the brain is dead, there's no consciousness.

This other view that says consciousness creates space, time, and brains as just headsets has opened to it that my consciousness, where I put my in quotes, the consciousness that's looking through this avatar,

does not perish when the avatar perishes.

That's certainly open to this point of view.

That's not what motivated the point of view, but it certainly is open to it.

So intellectually, I'm open to the point of view.

Emotionally,

I fear death.

So even though intellectually it seems quite reasonable, I have the Darwinian fear of death that's wired into me, and that's part of the game.

I would probably go for the new stuff.