Donald Hoffman
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4 recordings
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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Well, so consciousness won't look like neurons, but the...
One could build... I'll put it this way.
You could build an interesting interface such that when the interface looks back at the whole conscious agent network that created it, it would see that as...
As if it were neurons and brains in projection.
Because that's all projection.
It's all projection.
So I'm not saying it's necessary, but I'm saying I could easily see making that happen.
Outside of space time, which is a deeper level of the simulation, right?
I hope we're using language the same way.
So there are going to be rules.
Maybe physical, I mean made out of matter inside space and time.
That's what I mean by physical.
Something that's made out of particles in space and time.
By hypothesis, the conscious agents are not inside space and time at all.
So they're not physical in that sense.
They are rule governed and I can say that they exist even if I don't perceive them.
I could say that they exist.
Whereas stuff in the headset is only there when I render it.
So maybe we're not disagreeing.
And I'm not saying it's necessary that when you use your headset to look at the agents that create the headset that you will necessarily see neurons.
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