Donald Hoffman

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

Suppose that you're a wizard.

You know all the rules of the game.

You can drive your car faster than anybody and get from A to B really quickly.

That's great.

But if you're the geek who can't even drive a car very well, but you wrote the code, you can do magic in the game.

You can take the car of the wizard and turn it into a donkey if you want.

Sure.

You can do anything.

Or you can turn it into a spaceship and make it fly however fast you want.

So you can do whatever.

Because you're manipulating the game.

That's right.

You know the code of the game.

Well, so what we talked about on the personal side is what most people are going to be able to do with effort because it takes a while for you to get that space and that distance.

As scientists, we can take this to a different level where we get mathematical models of consciousness, right?

we can show how exactly space-time emerges as a headset.

What is the software that's creating this headset?

And once you can do that, then you can do magic inside.

So I think that understanding consciousness as a scientific theory will not by any means give us the whole story of consciousness.

Whatever theory I come up with, and the next thousand years of theories it comes up with, will be 0% of consciousness.

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