Donald Hoffman

So you could have a bunch of them that have similar projections of the one.

bigger conscious dynamics.

Or maybe I should just stop there and see if that's addressed to your question or.

So great question on the free will and then the nature of the origin of this headset.

And is it just all pre-programmed or is there room for exploration?

Is that assertion correct?

I'm not sure.

These are deep waters now.

So that's why I'm myself now having some difficult trouble.

So I would say the free will question first.

When I look at our mathematics, I could interpret the Markovian kernel for a given agent as representing the free will choice of that agent.

I could interpret it that way.

But if I do that, I look at all the others and it's being affected by all the other conscious agents.

So my probability space is being impacted by the other conscious agents.

That's right.

But you could say just my quality, but my free will is not.

But here's the trick is that...

groups of conscious agents that satisfy certain conditions are also a conscious agent.

So that means if I think about all the individual smaller agents as having free will, then this new agent also has, if I think about having free will, I would need to have a new notion of free will that's

really quite an interesting one.