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Don Hoffman interview on his theory of conscious agents, quantum mechanics, and his meditation practice. Donald Hoffman also answers commenter questions from earlier rounds. The Stanford lecture he mentions is not yet online, but a similar presentation at MESEC is linked in the works cited section below.

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Round 1 Interview with Donald Hoffman    • Exposing the Strange Blueprint Behind "Rea...  

Round 2 Interview with Donald Hoffman    • Fusions of Consciousness | Donald Hoffman ...  

Conscious Agents
1:00 What's been the reception to your Fusions of Consciousness paper? Most downloaded paper in last 6 months...
2:05 Thoughts from Nima Arkani-Hamed? Amplituhedron discoverer
4:20 Levels via conscious agents
7:05 Commenter denisovan 📫 Any experimental evidence?
13:40 UV/IR interaction from Jonathan Pageau interview
19:38 Beautiful story about how science works (commonly misunderstood)
25:45 UV/IR interaction | Macro wraps around to micro?
29:20 Commenter Kimo Turz 📫 "I'd like him to explain how geometric concepts like volume etc. can be thought of without space. Because they can't."

Quantum Questions
32:20 Does the theory of conscious agents explain quantum weirdness?
35:40 Quantum Bayesianism & Christopher Fuchs
39:10 Recent Nobel Prize winners (Aspect, Clauser, Zeilinger) on local realism
45:15 John Wheeler's "It from Bit"
48:15 Seth Lloyd's ontology of qubits & gates

Model Mechanics
51:35 Markovian dynamics are computationally universal
54:10 Commenter carbon1479 📫 Does the model mean an eternal block universe or multiverse?
1:01:00 Commenter evomr05 📫 Is there a fractal-like quality of a sample subset conscious agent and the infinite agent (Omega)?
1:05:45 Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle & conscious agents
1:13:50 Gibbs free energy outside spacetime
1:14:35 Commenter Fid Rewe 📫 What if math & logic aren't true outside spacetime?
1:18:10 Max Tegmark thinks mathematics is fundamental reality

Meditation Practice
1:22:50 Personal experience as a teacher, Don as meditator
1:26:00 Eckhart Tolle as a strong influence
1:27:00 Why Don needs to meditate
1:29:10 30,000 hours
1:30:30 Conscious agent theorem has a theorem | One conscious agent
1:34:40 Analogy to infants
1:36:45 Best ideas come from silence
1:37:15 Any advice for beginners? The Power of Now & A New Earth
1:42:55 Joseph Campbell's anecdote about Buddhist & Catholic monks

🚾 Works Cited
Fusions of Consciousness Paper https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/1/129 (Can be downloaded or read within browser window)

Bruineberg J, Dołęga K, Dewhurst J, Baltieri M. (2022) The Emperor's
New Markov Blankets. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45, e183: 1–76. https://philarchive.org/archive/VEILMA

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