Donald Hoffman

So intellectually, I'm open to the point of view.

Emotionally,

I fear death.

So even though intellectually it seems quite reasonable, I have the Darwinian fear of death that's wired into me, and that's part of the game.

I would probably go for the new stuff.

Three dimensions of space, one dimension of time feels quite confining to me.

I feel like we've got a cheap headset, and this is a fairly cheap simulation that we're in, and I would love to see what else is on offer.

For example, when I'm trying to solve some mathematical problems, I can imagine a three-dimensional shape, but I can't imagine a four-dimensional shape.

And we had to do – some of the problems were solved.

We have to look at the geometries of things in six or nine or more dimensions.

And we can't just sort of imagine it and figure out what's going on.

We have to crawl our way up to the geometry by theorem proof, theorem proof.

We actually have to prove our way.

So we're like blind men filling the elephant with theorems and proofs to understand the geometry.

I would love to have a headset where I could just see in a glance everything about nine-dimensional space.

And you can't do that with our current headset.

And why stop at nine dimensions?

Why not be able to just see in 30 or a thousand or a billion dimensions?

Probably so, yeah.

These are deep waters again, but here's another take on it.