Donald Hoffman

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The School of Greatness · The Math Says You've Never Seen Reality | Donald Hoffman · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

So that's not brand new.

That's been for a while.

But the idea that we can actually now use the tools of science and rigorously, not hand wave, rigorously with mathematical precision,

discover mathematical structures that we can then test back in the headset of space-time to see if we're getting the right structures to predict things.

Because in our headset, we can only get our data inside the headset.

Science is restricted to what can you find in the headset.

Right, right.

So I would say that, yes, there are an infinite number of conscious avatars, and they have a wide variety of different kinds of headsets.

Ours is probably one of the more trivial.

We have three dimensions of space, one dimension of time.

We're forced to be attached to a physical avatar in this.

And I think that most of the headsets that are available for consciousness to play with probably have much higher dimensions.

Why not 50,000 dimensions, right?

Why should we be stuck in three?

I mean...

Exactly, different worlds.

Maybe with the very notions of space and time themselves are no longer even relevant in these other headsets.

Well, the way I would think of it is there is the one consciousness of which Louis and Don are just two avatars.

Yes.

But it's the same consciousness

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