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 talking all this highfalutin stuff about consciousness leading to the interface.

Well, the right questions are, so what is the mass of an electron?

What part of your conscious agent dynamics is going to map into what we call mass?

What is the spin?

Why is there a hyperfine structure in the energy levels of the orbitals of electrons and so forth?

We're getting hints at answers to those kinds of questions about like the hyperfine structure.

So it's really quite interesting.

So again, I would be stunned if we're right.

But at least we're precise so that we can now begin the whole process of saying, okay, at least these hypotheses are precise.

So now we can show their limits, try to prove where they reach their limits, and then move on.

Or to show that, you know, this is just fundamentally wrongheaded.

There's nothing worthwhile.

Maybe our definition of mass is just plain wrong.

We'll see.

But it's intriguing enough that I have a particle physicist who put his name on the paper with us.

It doesn't mean it's right.

It doesn't mean that he's convinced that we're right.

But we have a real particle physicist who thinks that if it's wrong, it's not obviously wrong, and it's worth pushing on.

My guess, again, we're way in over my head, but Mike, here we are.

The joy of exploration.

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