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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And there's no red Ferrari in the supercomputer.

You can look in the supercomputer.

There's no red Ferrari there.

That's right.

And that's the only existence that it has.

The red Ferrari in the VR game is only there as a perception and only as long as you choose to perceive it.

As soon as you look away, that's gone.

So neurons are what we perceive.

what we render in the headset when we look inside brains.

but they're not the reality.

But I should be very, very careful.

I want to say neuroscience is very, very important.

We actually need more money for neuroscience because what we have to do is look at the neuroscience and reverse engineer it.

There's something outside, there's software outside the headset, just like in the VR game, right?

There's software rendering that Ferrari.

And if you want to understand how that Ferrari is rendered, you've got to go to the supercomputer and look at the code.

Well, so that's what we have to do.

We have to study the brain, study the 86 billion neurons, trillions of synapses.

That's just the data for the next step out of the headset.

What is the code that's rendering the space-time headset and rendering the 86 billion neurons and trillions of synapses?

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