Donald Hoffman

The more you just sit there being aware of awareness without thinking about, you know, you're not, see, the whole point about not thinking is thinking you're back into this small computational realm.

You're back into this really tiny, out of all the infinities, you're back in this little tiny infinity.

So letting go, so this is not- Well, we know the headset is computational, right?

Well, we don't know for sure.

Our current models are, but we haven't proven that.

Does local realism not being real mean that it has to be computational?

No, it doesn't entail.

I mean, so it doesn't entail that at all.

No.

Right.

It's just not a physical process.

And it doesn't have to be a computational process even.

It could be functions that are not computational.

Well, it hurts me too.

I'm telling you these things, but not because it's easy for me.

My head hurts too thinking about these things.

Well, so the standard story that you'd – if you take a computer science class and –

study of the theory of computation, they'll tell you about something called the halting problem.

This is one of the big problems.

Turing, I believe, posed it and showed that it was not computational.