Donald Hoffman

And so the reason I would, given the choice that you're asking me to make here, my own

predilection would be to say, let's go for something entirely different now.

Because in some sense that, partly because I'm inquisitive, and I would like to, what is it like to live in a five-dimensional world?

What is it like to have 20 dimensions of color and a thousand dimensions of emotion instead of just a few that we have?

What is it like

My feeling is that we have the training wheel set version right now of this stuff, really, really small.

And so my guess is...

One possibility is that, look, you and I really are this infinite intelligence, this infinite consciousness.

That's what we really are.

We're peering through, in this case, very, very simple avatars with very, very simple interfaces.

And maybe it's the one saying this is fun, but when I answer your question this way, maybe it's the one saying, yeah, this is great and this is fun, but there's so much more to explore in different dimensions.

I haven't lost whatever I learned in this little interface, and I'm happy for the relationships and the friends and all the things I learned about war and hate and religion and all that other stuff, all the things that go on here.

But that's only a mere –

in some sense, trivial projection of this entire Cantor's hierarchy of infinities of potential.

This is trivial.

And the potential is mind-bogglingly infinite.

And so my attitude, let's get on with it.

Nothing is lost by moving on.

And everything is to be gained.

You can see, but again, these are very, very deep waters.