Donald Hoffman

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

I had trouble sleeping.

That was what got me to really take this seriously.

When I had trouble sleeping, I realized, okay, I need to step back and look.

Wow.

Yes.

From a scientific view, now this is less personal and more, if you want to understand, have helpful things about consciousness.

transcends any theory so as I mentioned science is a process of saying let's make these assumptions I'm not assuming that they're true I'm just assuming that they're consistent and then I can use mathematics to explain all this stuff

But then there's an infinite number of scientific theories that you could go after infinitely.

So whatever you are, whatever your consciousness is, it transcends every single scientific theory.

Wow.

And so we can use scientific theories to...

explore consciousness.

And I'm all for that.

I'm working on a mathematical model myself right now, a mathematical model of consciousness.

It's called the trace logic.

And there's going to be an institute coming out next month called the Trace Institute that's exploring this.

So I'm all for using mathematics to give a mathematically precise account of consciousness that I think will then allow us to show how physics arises from consciousness, how quantum theory arises from consciousness,

And that will then allow us to do technologies that will look like magic for the following reason.

Wow.

So suppose that you're, go back to the Grand Theft Auto example.

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