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All right, everybody, buckle up.

It's time for part two of Donald Hoffman.

I'm your host, Tom Bilyeu, and welcome to Impact Theory.

So I'm just trying to understand.

So the thing that I'm sort of debating in my own head is, okay, when I grant you that consciousness is fundamental, then there's all this internal logic to the space-time continuum that I know and love.

Yeah.

So I'm wondering, okay, if I for a second say you have touched on something that's really important, which is that space-time is the simulation.

But I don't need to draw the conclusion that consciousness is the fundamental thing.

That just becomes a debate about whether consciousness can emerge or not.

It could be that there, and this feels more right to me when I try to imagine it, but I fully admit what I'm about to say simply pushes God farther down.

It kicks the can.

Okay.

So what feels intuitive to me because it's what I'm doing is that I exist in somebody else's simulation that exists in the real world.

And that person, they still need God or something.

I have not in any way, shape or form explained that I've kicked the can.

But then all the sort of