Donald Hoffman
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2,139 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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My guess is that it's possible, but we'll have to see.
Okay.
that we could have genuine free will at the smaller agent level.
And that's not incompatible with free will at higher levels and even the free will of whatever the super, I mean, I can't even describe the one agent.
It transcends any mathematical description.
So we could never actually get this mathematical model in the final limit that I'm describing.
But could we get it in the
smaller infinities that we can deal with and show that it works there.
We can't get to Aleph infinity, but we can go maybe in smaller infinities and see if it works there and get some hint.
Ultimately, I mean, the reason why I said I'm in deep waters is because I know that ultimately I can't answer you.
Ultimately, I can't get to a final description of the one agent.
I mean, it literally, our mathematics says it transcends any description.
So I have to halt and say, I can't tell you
I can only tell you about projections of that one.
And from the projections, the mathematics points to the one, but our analytical tools fail us.
Well, again, that's a good question because, I mean, I'm not saying that the data we have uniquely determine this theory, right?
Absolutely not.
So I would say they point me as a scientific theorist toward this hypothesis.
Here I am with conscious experiences, interacting with others that I think have conscious experiences.
My physicalist framework can't explain them at all.
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