Donald Hoffman

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

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But I think this little step will give us technologies that will make our current technologies look like firecrackers.

Wow.

I think that's what's ahead.

Right, so I would say that brains do not create any aspect of our thoughts or feelings at all, but that we absolutely should do neuroscience to study the correlation between neural activity and our thoughts and feelings.

And we should absolutely do that.

And pharmacology, things that we can do to help ourselves, absolutely.

But it's not because the brains are causative.

They're not causing anything.

So brains have no causal powers.

None of my behavior is caused by neural activity.

Really?

Absolutely not.

None of it is caused by neural activity because the neural activity doesn't even exist.

That's right.

So right now, Hoffman has no neural activity.

If you measure things with EEGs, you will see evidence of neural activity in your measurement.

But that's just a headset representation of software outside of the headset.

Of a consciousness running this avatar.

That's right.

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