Donald Hoffman

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2,139 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory · Is Reality Real? - New Science On How The Universe & Consciousness Aren't Real | Donald Hoffman PT 2 (Fan Fav) · 1 Jan 2026 podcast

My question was different.

From E. coli's perspective, I was thinking through the headset of E. coli.

So E. coli has its own headset.

And I'm just wondering for E. coli, see, it may not need to have this persistence notion because all it needs to know, I'm happy, I'm eating.

And I completely agree with you on that.

I was just raising the question, could we come up with a game that was so simple, that was so trivial, that in some sense, persistence was irrelevant.

I mean, you either are told bad or good.

That's all you're told, bad or good, and you do something random.

Well, not quite.

So there's this complicated dynamics of consciousness going on.

And

The coin of the realm of our experiences, and that's the hypothesis.

So the experiences are being shared and triggered.

Think like the Twitterverse, right?

But what you're tweeting are experiences and what you're receiving are experiences.

So we're going to have this – it's like –

The Twitterverse is huge, millions of users and so forth.

If you look at my Twitter page, right, there's only a small number of people following me and a small number that I'm following.

So I'm getting a tiny picture of Twitter.

So there's a big social network, a lot going on.

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