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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I'm saying that we could easily set up a situation or with some effort, we could set up a situation in which that was the case.

In other cases, you might see only a single neuron, for example, if you're a very simple thing or some other structure.

It depends on the nature of your interface.

But for an interface like ours, so another way to put it is here's what I think neurons are.

Neurons are our interface looking at the conscious agents that are constructing our interface.

That's what neurons are.

They're the interface symbols, headset symbols that our headset gets when it looks at the conscious agents that are constructing the headset.

That's what it says.

Yeah.

I think that that idea is, is, um, can't be dismissed out of hand.

I think it's a very interesting idea and I don't have a better one right now.

So, so yes, it, the, it feels to me like, um,

I'm not my body.

My body is just an avatar.

If you're in virtual reality – You do feel that.

Well, I think that.

I'll say that.

I'm very much attached to my body.

And if something hurt my body, I would be panicked and so forth.

So I don't feel like I'm not my body.

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