Exposing the Strange Blueprint Behind "Reality" (Donald Hoffman Interview)

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Donald Hoffman interview on spacetime, consciousness, and how biological fitness conceals reality. We discuss Nima Arkani-Hamed's Amplituhedron, decorated permutations, evolution, and the unlimited intelligence.
The Amplituhedron is a static, monolithic, geometric object with many dimensions. Its volume codes for amplitudes of particle interactions & its structure codes for locality and unitarity. Decorated permutations are the deepest core from which the Amplituhedron gets its structure. There are no dynamics, they are monoliths as in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Background
0:00 Highlights
6:55 The specific limits of evolution by natural selection
10:50 Don's born in a San Antonio Army hospital in 1955 (and his parents' background)
14:44 As a teenager big question he wanted answered, "Are we just machines?"
17:23 Don's early work as a vision researcher; visual systems construct
20:43 Carlos's 3-part series on Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem
Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem
22:29 Clarifications on FBT: Game theory simulations & math proofs
24:20 What does he mean I can't see reality? Fitness payoff functions don't know about the truth...
28:23 Evolution shapes sensory systems to guide adaptive behavior... consider the virtual reality headset
32:45 FBT doesn't include costs for extra bits of information processing
34:40 Joscha Bach's "There are no colors in the universe"... though even light itself isn't fundamental!
36:36 Map-territory relationship
40:27 Infinite regress, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
42:27 Erik Hoel's causal emergence theory
45:40 Don's take on causality: there are no causal powers within spacetime
What's Beyond Spacetime?
50:50 Nima Arkani-Hamed's Amplituhedron
53:00 What percentage of physicists would agree spacetime is doomed?
56:00 Amplituhedron a static, monolithic, geometric object with many dimensions...
59:23 Ties to holographic principle, Ads-CFT correspondence
1:03:13 Quantum error correction
1:05:23 James Gates' adinkra animations linking electromagnetism & electron-like objects
The Unlimited Intelligence
1:08:30 Does Don still meditate 3 hours every day?
1:11:30 "We're here for the ride..."
1:12:27 All my theories are trivial, there's an unlimited intelligence that transcends
1:14:00 Carlos meanders on meditation
1:15:50 "You can't know the truth, but you can be the truth"
1:17:43 Explore-Exploit Tradeoff (foraging strategy)
1:19:15 "You're absolutely knocking on the right doors here"... our 4D spacetime for some reason essential for consciousness
1:21:10 Why this world, with these symbols, this interface?
1:22:20 "My guess, one of the cheaper headsets"
Conscious Realism
1:24:40 Precise, mathematical model of consciousness... the end of Cantor's infinities
1:28:30 Fusions of Consciousness paper... bridges between interactions of conscious agents/Markovian dynamics → decorated permutations → the Amplituhedron → spacetime
1:35:20 In a meta way, did Don choose the highest fitness path for his career?
1:39:10 "Don't believe my theory, not the final word"
1:41:00 Where to find more of Don's work
🚩Links to Donald Hoffman & More 🚩
"Do we see reality as it is?" (Ted Talk 2015)
• Do we see reality as i...
"Symmetry Does Not Entail Veridicality" lecture (Hoffman 2017)
• Don Hoffman - "Symmetr...
Donald Hoffman's Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem Part 1 (Carlos' Explainer)
• Donald Hoffman's Fitne...
James Gates on Does Reality have a Genetic Basis (2012)
• TVO S James Gates on D...
Objects of consciousness (Hoffman 2014)
www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
Fusions of Consciousness (Hoffman 2023)
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/1/129
When the Map Is Better Than the Territory (Hoel 2017) arxiv.org/abs/1612.09592
🚾 Works Cited
www.quantamagazine.org/physic...
www.ias.edu/ideas/nima-arkani...
www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
www.quantamagazine.org/using-...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
theoryofeverything.org/theToE/...
dribbble.com/shots/1761611-Am...
• Event with Two Electro... Event with Two Electrons and Two Muons
• Day 3 - Scott Melville... Locality and Unitarity Slide
• Artist’s impression of... Massive object distorting spacetime
2001: A Space Odyssey (4K Monolith)
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@Carlos.Explains Год назад

0:00 Highlights 6:55 The specific limits of evolution by natural selection 10:50 Don's born in a San Antonio Army hospital in 1955 (and his parents' background) 14:44 As a teenager big question he wanted answered, "Are we just machines?" 17:23 Don's early work as a vision researcher; visual systems construct 20:43 Carlos's 3-part series on Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem 22:29 Clarifications on FBT: Game theory simulations & math proofs 24:20 What does he mean I can't see reality? Fitness payoff functions don't know about the truth... 28:23 Evolution shapes sensory systems to guide adaptive behavior... consider the virtual reality headset 32:45 FBT doesn't include costs for extra bits of information processing 34:40 Joscha Bach's "There are no colors in the universe"... though even light itself isn't fundamental! 36:36 Map-territory relationship 40:27 Infinite regress, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem 42:27 Erik Hoel's causal emergence theory 45:40 Don's take on causality: there are no causal powers within spacetime What's Beyond Spacetime? 50:50 Nima Arkani-Hamed's Amplituhedron 53:00 What percentage of physicists would agree spacetime is doomed? 56:00 Amplituhedron a static, monolithic, geometric object with many dimensions... 59:23 Ties to holographic principle, Ads-CFT correspondence 1:03:13 Quantum error correction 1:05:23 James Gates' adinkra animations linking electromagnetism & electron-like objects The Unlimited Intelligence 1:08:30 Does Don still meditate 3 hours every day? 1:11:30 "We're here for the ride..." 1:12:27 All my theories are trivial, there's an unlimited intelligence that transcends 1:14:00 Carlos meanders on meditation 1:15:50 "You can't know the truth, but you can be the truth" 1:17:43 Explore-Exploit Tradeoff (foraging strategy) 1:19:15 "You're absolutely knocking on the right doors here"... our 4D spacetime for some reason essential for consciousness 1:21:10 Why this world, with these symbols, this interface? 1:22:20 "My guess, one of the cheaper headsets" Conscious Realism 1:24:40 Precise, mathematical model of consciousness... the end of Cantor's infinities 1:28:30 Fusions of Consciousness paper... bridges between interactions of conscious agents/Markovian dynamics → decorated permutations → the Amplituhedron → spacetime 1:35:20 In a meta way, did Don choose the highest fitness path for his career? 1:39:10 "Don't believe my theory, not the final word" 1:41:00 Where to find more of Don's work

@KK-us4qu Год назад

Hey, do you have any idea if Donald Hoffman has acquainted himself with work of Heidegger? His ideas and descriptions of the mechanisms etc. are somewhat similar to Heideggers view of things. Because this whole things begs for different ontological understanding.

@Carlos.Explains 7 месяцев назад

@@KK-us4qu Not sure! I don't think I've ever heard Hoffman comment on Heidegger.

@KK-us4qu 7 месяцев назад

@@Carlos.Explains Do you reckon he might have had some inspiration from Buddhism and Abhidharma?

@MichaelJones-ek3vx 2 месяца назад

😂

@MichaelJones-ek3vx 2 месяца назад

All of us who are ready for idealism/consciousness as fundamental structures and reality were born around a certain period. 1940 to 1960. We all had common cultural and conceptual frameworks. One thing I'm an expert on is physiology. I have deep knowledge of this as I have done scientific research in it. In physiology, The complexity is beyond anything mechanical. It starts with biochemistry, organizes into cells, organizers into organelles, organizers into cells, organized into subsystems, organizers into systems, organizes into physiology. If you look at it mathematically the number of permutations that are possible rise exponentially with each level. It becomes a universe in itself. No machine operates that way. Not even the supercomputer or, the global workspace of Google.

@divinewind7405 Год назад

I love DH; he's basically come to a Buddhist understanding via pure science. Marvelous interview 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks Divine!

@l.rongardner2150 11 месяцев назад

Wrong! Buddha never taught what DH teaches. DH's spiritual understanding is Eckhart Tolle remedial level. I say this as the foremost living expert on esoteric spirituality, who wrote a book deconstructing the plethora of nonsense propagated by Tolle.

@peteraddison4371 9 месяцев назад

.. he's cottoned onning, a-b-out π÷×~ in-too-thro-ver ...

@peteraddison4371 9 месяцев назад

@@l.rongardner2150 ... & Ole Tolle sold his idea of,?, for squiggabux, that became what the LandMark Cult, becomes a volunteary system of slavery ...

@EthanIvy-ps1kj 7 месяцев назад

Also orthodoxy!

@solomonfinite Год назад

One of the wonderful things about Donald Hoffman (‘s icon) is that, despite the high levels of technicality, the immense intricacies of his theories, and the academic works that he talks about with his incredible breath of knowledge, he consistently grants soundbites of wisdom that point toward the important essence behind it all. Which wonderfully allows for an applicable appreciation for the truth he orbits around.

@peteraddison4371 9 месяцев назад

... Yah 🙃 love them awe-bits ...

@laurakelly631 Год назад

as always, Donald Hoffman is amazing. So grateful he is here and that great interviewers are making these conversations available to us all!

@hubrisnxs2013 Год назад

Likewise! Thanks for the comment. I feel such things may increase the chance of more Hoffman videos

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks Laura and@@hubrisnxs2013! Appreciate the comments. :)

@rareartists Год назад

I see 'Space Time Is Doomed' and I click. This is one of the best Hoffman interviews out there. Thanks so much for all of your thoughtful research and exploration of Don's work. It really showed in the interview. Also, the graphic overlays, time stamps and show notes are fantastic, additions. Consciousness is all there is ...and "each of us" are merely fractal portals of consciousness, seeking novel insights about consciousness, what an amazing ride. LFG!!!

@peteraddison4371 9 месяцев назад

... ConsciousnessAdictionEnligtenmentIgnorAnts ...

@peteraddison4371 9 месяцев назад

... get ready for the free NRG drop, but it will actually cost us ev'er'y-Thing that true & open sovereignty rep-resents. Owe-ning nothing. Love-ring Prescious. Is a too edged Mad-Jick-ALL Arthur S-word. OpeNshut. In&out. Up&do-in. Fall-inOut. ComNgoIn. NOW-THEN, et-al, add-infin ...

@GiedriusMisiukas Год назад

This is one of the best interviews with Donald Hoffman that I have seen lately. Many thanks. 40:00, 49:20, 55:30 interesting points 59:15 comparison with monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey movie 1:00:00 on Holographic principle 1:05:45 Tesseracts, James Gates, etc. 1:13:30 1:22:00 lol, I was surprised and cheered up by what I started to see slowly :) The moment at 1:33:35 - yes, the similarity of these same two formulas struck me hard like a year ago, which helped me kinda move to ITP from Orch OR. And I love Don's excitement of discovery here after this moment too. 1:36:44 And I highly recommend checking out the video description plus all the links in there.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks Giedrius! Really appreciate your continued support. =)

@gustafa2170 Год назад

Your channel is a hidden gem. Keep up the great conversations.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thank you very much, Gustaf!

@realcygnus Год назад

Even as a kid I always thought there was something interesting about the fact that we only see just under 1 single octave of the EM spectrum. I know they're different things but just imagine how boring our musical melodies would be with such a limitation.

@desertportal353 Год назад

I really appreciate Don's words on meditation. I always wondered what he was up to there. It is exactly as I know it!!!

@lalsamarasekera4 Год назад

Thank you very much Don and Carlos for another wonderful discussion. I enjoyed/learned quite a bit from the non-mathematical aspects of the discussion as well - meditation etc. Carlos, your videos on the subject are great too, and subtitles with time locations are very helpful. Best wishes to both of you.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thank you, Lal!

@jerrybyrd8784 10 месяцев назад

Carlos you are absolutely the best interviewer of Donald Hoffman bringing out subtitles that others fail to see. Jerry

@pjaworek6793 Год назад

Thanks Carlos! I love the format and the sneak peek at the beginning, everyone should do this. Waiting for part 2, will look for that "uv/ir interaction".

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks P! I appreciate the feedback. For those interested in the UV/IR interaction, Hoffman discusses this topic in his interview with Jonathan Pageau.

@mikemarable4098 Год назад

The polarity of the human experience, free will to choose and the amnesia of this reality frame provides a valuable learning opportunity. To experience separation. The “creator” seeks to know itself.

@aaronknight7129 Год назад

You rock! Found you due to your levin interview.. and was impressed with how prepared you were! See it here too. Thanks for coming with good questions so I can absorb the answers!

@ruhig.mein.Kleiner. Год назад

Thank you so much for the illustrations. It helps a lot. Couldn't find another channel that illustrates Hoffman's Work.

@r3b3lvegan89 Год назад

Don’s come a long way since the neuroscience conference videos from 2013-14. Were all learning. We’re all one Love. Do your best to enjoy the ride and do what’s right

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

TK421, feel those good vibrations!

@DoloresLehmann Год назад

I can't recall that a scientific conversation ever moved me to tears. This one did.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Wow Dolores, I hope happy ones. :)

@DoloresLehmann Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains Oh yes, indeed!

@DoloresLehmann Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains Thanks for your attention. It's just so beautiful to see how science, philosophy and religion are finally heading towards a common point of reunion. Let me quote Ernesto Cardenal: "If we call what we are, existence, then God doesn't exist. If we call what God is, existence, then nothing exists besides him.

@vdlzts. Год назад

It's going to be a once in a lifetime ride. Me myself and I am, we're going. The experience of self/unity system is officially supported. That's a good sign. If we get to experience self on this layer of representation, then is not so trivial after all. Intelligence knows better. Maybe the experience of being self-reference consciousness is more important than we assume. keep up the good talk!!!

@hubrisnxs2013 Год назад

He mentions Witten in this. Does Edward Witten, the intellectual father of string theory, truly believe space time is dead? This would be of incredible importance if so. We have 10(11) dimensions because of the supersymmetry he found in the 80s and 90s

@Jason5000 Год назад

I am a simple man.... I see "amplituhedron" I click.... or what my current interface tells me is a click and I do that

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

So happy you came across my interface, Jason!

@harveyFOSHO Год назад

Hoffman’s theory is exciting and I think it’s correct too. It seems to me it fits perfectly with Penrose-Hameroff’s ORC-OR in a complementary manner. The “conscious agents” interact with space-time in the microtubules.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks harvey, I will research FOSHO.

@hubrisnxs2013 Год назад

As great as Orch-Or is, it definitely takes as it's starting point space-time. They definitely have consciousness as center of their theories but Donald doesn't use space-time...But I do think there's a reason why Hoffman's starting point for his grand theory is consciousness. From consciousness he is building space time, quantum mechanics and what it is like to eat an apple. Great post! I don't think many people make that intuitive leap: I happen to be one that did

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

@@hubrisnxs2013 Very interesting... I'll definitely be researching!

@givemorephilosophy Год назад

Carlos so very grateful to you 🙏🙏

@thomasschon 10 месяцев назад

I am just another guy, which is just an avatar of the "one unlimited intelligence" that we all are. (1:37:11) It's unlimited because it contains itself, and the further you go, the more of itself it "creates". An intelligence that is having a dream could never reach such a thing as a boundary from where its dream ends. Any boundary it would imagine would only be a part of its dream. It's a concept, and it can only be valid within the concept because that's all there is. An intelligence that must be unlimited because it isn't contained within something else and thereby isn't able to have such a thing as a property that would give it shape. It doesn't have a beginning or an end, and it doesn't start or stop because terms like that are only valid within this concept. To be an "avatar" of the one unlimited intelligence "that we all are" is what creates the illusion of duality. Duality is the dissonance that will emerge when this intelligence, which is all that there is, believes itself to be separate from itself. A dissonance that is part of what makes up this concept, who are having a delusion of a "you", that believes itself to be something separate, like a person that is having a conversation with someone else within this concept. You can’t get something from nothing, and if you could, then there would be nowhere for it or a place where it could reside because the whole notion of there being something rather than nothing is only a point of view that is valid from within this unlimited intelligence that is having this dream. What you describe when you say, "I am just another guy, which is just an avatar of the one unlimited intelligence that we all are," is God. The Bible says that no matter where we go, we cannot escape the presence of God. Well, you can't escape the Matrix in a self-contained concept that is also all that there is. Jeremiah 23:23-33 in context 23 "I am a God who is everywhere and not in one place only. (The concept lacks a true duality.) 24 No one can hide where I cannot see them. Do you not know that I am everywhere, in heaven and on earth? (This could also describe a four-dimensional being within this concept looking down on us from a fourth dimension.) "The one unlimited intelligence that we all are" sounds a lot like panentheism, which means God is present in all creation by virtue of his omnipresence and omnipotence, sustaining every creature in being without being identified with any creature. To describe "one unlimited intelligence" as "all that there is" would be indistinguishable from describing God with creation in such a way that the two are indistinguishable.

@BigJack512 Год назад

Terrific job Carlos.

@Jim-jx5ds Год назад

I'm taking a shot of Stolitchnia each time Don says "space-time is doomed."

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

🤣

@Jim-jx5ds Год назад

I'm taking a hit off my DMT. pipe each time Don says "aliens."

@divinewind7405 Год назад

🤣🥳

@Korttikeidas Год назад

Kudos for excellent timestamps

@adrianlara5045 Год назад

Hi, I was wondering what is meant by static monoliths outside of space time? Is he meaning something literal or physical? Or is it like some sort of math constant . Also any recommendations for an intro to this kinda of stuff

@carbon1479 Год назад

1:04:50 - Closest thing to a direct admission I've heard so far that Hoffman and Prakash's model is an eternal block universe (or multiverse) effectively. I mentioned it before in other places - I think he and Michael Silberstein would have an interesting discussion regarding adynamic global constraints.

@aynua.amazonas Год назад

Thank you for this very nourishing and inspiring conversation. Question: as we are trying to see/discover/understand what’s beyond space-time, from the space-time point of view, how can we know that what we discover is not simply another aspect of space-time?

@simplythinking4805 Год назад

Carlos: you can't see base reality (but)...do you think the practice of meditation give us or can possibly move us in that direction you know even if we can't see it directly? This is what the objective of meditation is in the East. (Not the popularized commercial meditation in the West.) "Enlightenment" is precisely when you see it directly or rather more accurately, when being the truth, as Hoffman so eloquently stated it. There is a mountain of literature on this. These are what the "Buddhas" claim. This requires a total commitment to seeking the truth - not just sitting meditation, but changing lifestyle and behavior. This is Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism 101 (with respect to its contemplative traditions). Practically all the numerous Hoffman's interviews are explaining and reinforcing basic learnings from these contemplative traditions in the language of today's Western society. This is useful and needs to be done. The fundamentals were always there - literally for thousands of years (this is not an exaggeration, if you know the history).

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thank you for this wonderful comment. I suspect that meditative practices do move us in the direction of the ultimate truth - they likely offer an insight into base reality and perhaps hold the answer as to why we're having this conscious experience. Why are we here? Why is there anything at all? I think contemplative practices can certainly help answer these questions (or at the very least, assuage anxieties related to them).

@account1307 Год назад

Fantastic interview

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thank you! Really appreciate the sub. 😁

@OfCourseICan Год назад

I was brought to this interview because after being a dreaded feeling of toxic energy that I wished to purge from my body, I found a remarkable Buddhist energy that helped do that. I'm only 16 minutes in and I will be interested if DH touches on that because I love and respect his mind.

@georgegoognin Год назад

First, thanks a lot for your great job 👏 The idea of “our consciousness is watching the reality through the VR headset and renders simplified/processed projections on the go” is okay. I’ve read about this in Bhagavad Gita, LOL. So, if we are all okay with this approach, how can we use it daily? How to jump out of the headset and update some stuff in space-time?) More straightforward: if a wall is an illusion, how can we walk through it?

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks George! Don often makes the case that we should take the object (the wall) seriously, but not literally. I.e. a blue folder on your desktop. The folder is not actually blue, it's just a symbol representing computer code/diodes/transistors (hardware & software). But it would be a mistake to just drag and drop the folder into the trash bin, as you would lose all the information/work inside the folder.

@MOAON_AABE 5 месяцев назад

I have SO MUCH RESPECT for Donald Hoffman 😊

@givemorephilosophy Год назад

Consciousness experience is understanding the infinite entanglement in multiple dimension and understanding our role in the bigger system of existence as coexistence of all that exists and is entangled 🙏🙏

@123jdide Год назад

Some of the videos in your description are set to private and therefore not viewable. I am digging your content thank you.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks for the heads up, James. I just checked and fixed. Link rot is real. :)

@StephenPaulKing Год назад

Are there any indications that a dynamic might exist for amplituhedra in the transformation of the number and "shape" of their facets?

@Rileysparadox Год назад

It's the SOURCE the battery... In order to run this huge illusion you need a huge power source.. LOVE.. EVERYTHING IS ENERGY

@sproutedgaucho 11 месяцев назад

Welcome to the restaurant at the end of the universe Douglas Adams. Love your discussion I felt I had heard it before. A C I M and David Hawkins. And many more Preceded this without the math.

@givemorephilosophy Год назад

Understanding is an innate need of a human being and that is what led to Space and time theory and will lead us to aligning all the percieved video game reality to just Existential Reality 🙏🙏🙏

@DavidOrtiz-so7xg Год назад

amazing

@felipezandim Год назад

Is it possible to make the paper "fusions of consciousness" available here?

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Hey Felipe! I just found the paper publicly available here: www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/1/129

@crystalynnpitts270 11 месяцев назад

Great video! Love you both!!!

@marlobardo4274 Год назад

This reality remains a hidden treasure with a headset no matter how "expansive"...including infinitely expansive... what is needed to feel "this" as ultimately real is a good heartset...Amplituhedron Chestahedron names for the stone of the philosophers, which maintains a solid core where spacetime melts away.

@alexroach9033 Год назад

I've had this thought over the years that if me and any other person could switch consciousnesses (if you could imagine that), neither of us would have any idea that anything had happened. I've spent a lot of time looking for someone who had similar ideas, and I think Don Hoffman would express that idea instead as consciousnesses or the single consciousness switching interfaces. It makes intuitive sense to me that we could all be god experiencing himself from every possible point of view. And why wouldn't he? A unity literally has nothing else to do lol. A lot of my own intuitive thoughts about things of this nature seem to be in tune with Don's ideas. I'm very glad to have found his way of thinking, and this video in particular has been very nice. Thank you for creating it.

@Linnz Год назад

If we could experience reality in which consciousness is fundamental, we are all one, and the source of everything is love - we'd all be noping out of here. That might negatively impact fitness.

@truthmatters3449 7 месяцев назад

I very much enjoy listening to such thoughts. But I have never heard mentioned, the Mandelbrot Set? Which seems? Particularly relevant in such an area??? Does it not???

@Carlos.Explains 7 месяцев назад

I love the Mandelbrot Set, and personally think fractals are key to some of this...

@yifuxero5408 Год назад

Something outside of spacetime? No problem. This is directly experiential, but no in a dualistic sense since. Also "It" (Pure Consciousness or Brahman), is not "outside" of anything, but IT transcends matter, energy, space, and time. Access "Mahamritunjaya mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir" and listen to it for 5 min per day for at least two weeks. Enjoy the Transcendental Absolute.

@1031jmurray Год назад

He is a genius. This man knows such much!!!

@jeffk3746 Год назад

This sounds a lot like Spinoza’s one substance which has infinite attributes through which we understand experience two, thought and matter (or extension as he calls it)

@gerardovenegas4610 9 месяцев назад

I've been playing with this ideas for YEARS now!! And recenlty I've been notice more and more people doing it too... Perhaps because myself playin with this for so long... Or perhaps something is been downloaded... I became an atheist at around 15 years of age... But continue studying religions with time move to Carl Jung, Game Theory, Complex Systems, Heuristics and more religion... Well guys it is all the same thing. It is amazing to see how many religions get to the same conclusion... All though you have to superpose several maps of meaning and representation to get to this conclusions... Whatever reality is... Seams so simple that we all have an intuitive feeling about it, we know THIS IS NOT IT!... But the headset is so charge with so many layers that the feeling is overload with stimulae and qualia. So we just have to play the game... One of the most beautiful things in this is how "sacred geometry" and super simetry at the end seams to be at the core of everything... I remember two phrases. 1: LET NO ONE IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER HERE! Plato 2: “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.” ― Voltaire Thanks for the content Carlos!!

@Rockythemountain 11 месяцев назад

You should do an episode on Gregory Bateson! (You mention him about a third of the way into the interview)

@Carlos.Explains 11 месяцев назад

Bateson is fantastic. I close my 3-part series on Hoffman's Fitness-Beats-Truth theorem with a map-territory quote from him. :)

@kafkaten Год назад

Is this interview published in podcast format? If not, it should! I'd really like to listen on my commute!

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks for the comment! I recently moved these interviews into RU-vid's new podcast portal. As for Spotify and Apple podcasts, those are coming soon! I will probably be rebranding, so will likely do that first.

@gregmason6152 11 месяцев назад

@@Carlos.Explains Just spent time looking for you where I get my podcasts. Unfortunately, nothing came back. I'd love to be able to listen without sitting at my desk, and punching RU-vid up :)

@Carlos.Explains 11 месяцев назад

@@gregmason6152 Thanks for the follow up. I was planning to start uploading podcasts to the other platforms today because I rebranded yesterday. But I'm going to wait and see how people respond - so far, the response has been less than stellar. :/

@gregmason6152 11 месяцев назад

@@Carlos.Explains Gonna take time to catch on. Put it out there. Be seen, get found :)

@georgesamaras2922 6 месяцев назад

I think something along the lines off - Approximations are energy efficient and good enough for adaptive behavior. Going up in energy budget with more resolution there is no payoff or maybe it's negative energy. The energy needed to process the extra detail doesn't result in more resources (energy),

@TheArjulaad Год назад

Merci!

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Merci! My first super thanks ever 😁

@TheArjulaad Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains Vous êtes très bienvenue Carlos! It’s probably better not to have expectations/wishes but since i lack wisdom , i hope it’s wont be the last. Yoniso-Manasikara my friend!☯

@MichaelJones-ek3vx 2 месяца назад

Helpful. I understand mathematics after two quarters of calculus plus all the math before it has the architecture of reality. It creates a symbolic structure that is precise that models reality. Am I wrong?

@elitequeef Год назад

Ty. DH is the man. Much respect. Wrapping my head around higher dimensional shapes and how to integrate them into visuals. :) This is where I am at. Your Oroboros and mine on my shoulder look similar. :P Cheers.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks ABDGK! Ouroboros is the greatest.

@elitequeef Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains it's the simplest explanation. But stupid people make the simple complicated. Lol. Keep it up. Seek the T. Later.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

@@elitequeef thanks! I might have a cosmic ouroboros video baking in the oven...

@aeimcinternetional Год назад

Apropos the claim that how we evolved (in mere 4 dimensions) limits what we are are able to be aware/conscious of: I've contrived conceptual tools (lingual lenses) for grasping (gaining and maintaining insight into) what it is that we tend to avoid becoming thoroughly aware of (insightful about); and how and why this evasive aspect of humanity exists. More specifically, that the cognitive and social/emotional functions-functions that we have in common with our closest simian cousins the chimpanzees-got leveraged (and to a far less prominent extent masked) by uniquely in our phylogeny occurred DNA-changes that amongst else gave rise to our (ambiadvantageously adaptive) language functions. These ambiadvantageous changes (primarily pleiotropic mutations of DNA-the fundamental molecular Unit of Inheritance in the phylogeny of flora as well as fauna) were successfully pioneered by common ancestors of ours. These individuals are aptly to be seen-as are all other individuals (including "eusocial individuals" such as ant-colonies)-as biologic evolution's basic Units of Reproduction. Individuals are what classic Darwinian Natural Selection (such as sexual selection and group selection) 'operate on'. I refer to the in our recent phylogeny (evolution) added language function associated ways of coping (with lifetime challenges of opportunity type as well as of threat type) with the acronym EAVASIVE. EAVASIVE approximately refers to that, how and why a great variety of more or less adaptive human neuroticism exists. I only managed to arrive at this "MAD"-inspired conceptual tool after abundant error plagued trials and by resorting to doggedly applying a by Werner Heisenberg as if heralded Tolerance Principled attitude. Presumably, today's humans (all of whom are examples of the so called "modern human" lineage) manifest EAVASIVE characteristics to a greater degree than did all other since long extinct human lineages of so called "archaic humans". The most surely known of these once upon a time contemporaries of "modern humans" are the Neanderthals and Denisovans. Most current non-African humans have an admixture of DNA from either one or both of these archaic humans. The origin of this (thus far on balance adaptive) admixture is likely to have involved occasional bride stealing in conjunction with how "moderns" most likely contributed strongly to the demise of the archaic lineages by murderous raiding. The extra EAVASIVEness involved in this usurping by "moderns" of "archaics" would not necessarily have manifested as better wielding of better weapons but is more likely to have mainly consisted of that "moderns" were more able and more inclined to organize raids and to staunchly maintain a murderous focus of "actention" while raiding. Perhaps interbreeding caused by raid-associated bride stealing was as common (or even more common) a cause of the recently discovered admixture of archaic DNA than was clandestine 'romantic' encounters between female "moderns" and "archaic" males. aeimcinternetional.org

@carlasimmons5546 11 месяцев назад

“We’re here for the ride”. Part of the ride at times involves the sensation of being a separate self steering the ride. Life is living us. We aren’t living life.

@Boris29311 9 месяцев назад

Life is making us cooperate

@gireeshneroth7127 8 месяцев назад

Reality is in consciousness' terms only. Consciousness' own take on itself.

@AdamGeest Год назад

“Given evolutionary theory, the probability that we are reconstructing reality is zero.”What does he mean by “evolutionarily theory” is he referring to a specific evolutionary force for example, natural selection, sexual selection, social selection, group selection? Or perhaps he’s referring to the disunified suite of mechanisms that have been lump summed under the banner of the “extended synthesis”? It’s not clear to me that his conclusions follow necessarily from all of these.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Hey Adam, he's referring to natural selection. You bring up a good point, in that evolution seems to have various selection pressures. He's focused here on natural selection.

@mscottveach 6 месяцев назад

Can someone help me understand why something like amplituhedron is profound? It's just a abstract,c onstructed mutlideminsional shape chosen such that there's a realtionship between its geometry and some probability amplitudes in fundamental physics? But we can imagine a multidimensional shape that does the same thingf or any set of porbabbiliteis we like... can't we? Or I can just make a list of probabilities and delcare each one is a magnitude of a vectror in some new dimesisional space... I am clearly missing something....

@givemorephilosophy Год назад

What never was will never be.and what is will never be destroyed. If we make this an axiom and explain everything to come to the truth. Emergence is there till humanity is in order 🙂🙂🙏🙏🙏

@javadhashtroudian5740 Год назад

Thank you DH. Your work confirms what I experienced in about 20 psychedelic sessions over 55 years. Ultimately I now understand my ego is a social construct, I'm a wrt robot with no freewill. By the way the map is not the territory comes from Alfred Korzybski the inventor of General Semantics in his seminal book science and sanity. It is a tough read.

@indefiance11 8 месяцев назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cT7hf8NOEk4.htmlfeature=shared

@imaginaryuniverse632 Год назад

I think the Bible refers to the surface areas that hold the information as the firmament or heavens on the first page of Genesis.

@truthmatters3449 7 месяцев назад

FBT T. Would seem obviously in front of our eyes at this time? Simply by looking at what is happening in the USA? And around the world? Politically, socially???

@pepedestroyer5974 Год назад

At the end of the conversation, What does he mean when he say "dont believe my theory, it is not the final word"? Does he mean that his theory is not the theory of everything or does he mean something else? Help me please. I am not a native speaker.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Hi Pepe, he doesn't think that a theory of everything is possible. Thank you very much for watching!

@pepedestroyer5974 Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains ohhh! that's what he meant!. I misunderstood what he meant and thought that he meant we shouldn't believe in his theory and that was paradoxical because the goal of somebody who proposes a theory is that others believe in his/her theory.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

@@pepedestroyer5974 Gotcha! Also, and you may already know this, in the bottom right of the video player there is the option for auto-translated subtitles (wrench icon). Probably doesn't make this specific point clearer, but hope that is helpful in the future!

@pepedestroyer5974 Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains do you mean that Hoffman doesn't make that point clearer or are you talking about the subtitle option? I can't rely on the subtitle option because sometimes It doesn't translate well. You see the misunderstandings.

@laurakelly631 Год назад

Apart from saying there can be no Theory of Everything... Hoffman often says that any theory is best taken as incomplete. The point is to work to disprove it. If it can be disproved, that is a good thing. It means progress. This continues forever. No theory should ever be considered final. He often says, 'Don't believe it. Test it. Keep exploring it. Try to prove it wrong. He invites that and hopes for it. He also says that the best theory can specifically delineate it's border... when it stops.

@AdamGeest Год назад

This issue was raised in the context of biosemsntics or so-called teleosemantics?

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Definitely has overlaps with both areas of study! Would love to cover in the future...

@poor_jafar 4 месяца назад

1:10:19 - 1:14:00

@MadplowDisease 11 месяцев назад

Time = the rate at which gravity pulls one infinity through all other infinites. ♾️1 becomes ♾️2. The sum of ♾️2 is equal to ♾️^♾️-♾️1. The sum of ♾️3 is equal to ♾️^♾️-the sum of ♾️1+♾️2. Idk how else to describe it but it feels like consciousness = a higher dimension of gravity. Which so far as I know gravity needs some kind of mass in order to be generated. Hyper mass? Gravity to me has the qualities of sinking, pulling/pushing, progressing, transitioning, motion, time, consciousness. We observe particles pass through time as we ourselves, made of the very same types of particles , experience the sensation of passing through time. We can remember what the past was like bc our brains are existing in a higher dimensional state which consists of one point that is = ♾️^♾️. If point A is ♾️^♾️ and point B is ♾️^♾️-point A and point C is ♾️^♾️- the sum of point A and B then point B is also ♾️^♾️+ point C. Sorry I’m not a mathematician I’m certain there is another way to write that but I hope the point is still understood. So what I’m trying to get at is gravity is the pulling/pushing effect that drives not only a pull in the 3rd dimension but at least through the 4th as well which would be the sensation of being pulled/pushed through the 4th dimension or time. What’s interesting to me is that at every point that is = ♾️^♾️ it is also equal to ♾️^♾️-♾️^♾️ as well as equal to ♾️^♾️+♾️^♾️. Again not a mathematician don’t judge I know there’s a better way to write that but idk the correct symbology. So I guess I’m theorizing that some type of hyper mass is generating a type of hyper gravity which is responsible for the motion we experience as time. Our brains are actually computing at a level where we are processing the totality of this moment ♾️^♾️ the processing is taking place bc hyper gravity is pulling us into the very next moment which is ♾️^♾️-♾️^♾️ we could potentially be gaining memories not by adding one moment into the next but by comparing the totality of this moment to the totality of the moment pier. In other words a memory (if we think about it as being a point or a collect of points) isn’t being stored anywhere but rather our brain is looking at the totality of a moment in time and it’s recognizing the loss of the totality of the most previous moment in time. Like suduko you don’t know which number goes into a space sometimes until you know every number that isn’t in that space. Our brain is processing all the ♾️^♾️ that is being lost (or being pulled away in a different direction) in order to be able to conceptualize the current moment while simultaneously being pulled forward through time to experience the very next moment.

@kimoturz9009 Год назад

I'd like him to explain how geometric concepts like volume etc. can be thought of without space. Because they can't.

@buendodo Год назад

47:00

@eriklintsev Год назад

Looks like Wolfram's branchial hypergraph could be isometric to amplituhedron

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Hey Ilya! Sweet, I'll have to look into that...

@eriklintsev Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains just a wild guess and gut feeling

@amorosogombe9650 Год назад

Could it be that it is a default property of the unlimited intelligence to explore its own consciousness at every level? Isn't it interesting that the Amplihedron is a geometric shape yet geometry is a 4D space time concept.

@cosmicmuffet1053 9 месяцев назад

I guess if you collide structures, they will annihilate structure. Vertexes in a system are all at relative points of effort to move to different positions.

@MadplowDisease 11 месяцев назад

Throw 1 million watches over a waterfall. At the point of impact the watch breaks into its components and all the pieces are visible on the surface of the water for a moment. Soon after some of the component pieces start to sink towards the bottom while others float on the surface. Some of the pieces start floating together on the surface like gears fitting together and start to form a system on the 2d surface. While the “denser” pieces sink to the bottom. Imagine the surface of the water as a filter the denser materials sink and the more buoyant pieces float. Now picture the surface of the water as a piece of paper that is on top of huge stack of papers. Again we drop our watches onto the surface and upon impact with the surface the watch once again breaks into its components but this time imagine that the very next sheet of paper which we can also imagine as a filter can only consist of the pieces that passed through the filter. While the pieces that remained on the first sheet of paper, the first filter, quickly start to come together and form a system within that dimension. The pieces that make it to the second sheet of paper are again filtered by that sheet of paper some pieces remaining and others staying behind but again importantly to note the pieces that make it to the 3rd sheet of paper cannot consist of any piece that has already been filtered by one of the passes two filters. So the “sinking” through the stack of papers is not only creating a system at every “sheet” but it is also becoming its own filter through which any new system passing through will be filtered by! Consciousness is just gravity functioning in higher dimensions! We are literally experiencing being pulled through into the next sheet of paper. Ok so now I’m going to start to hypothesize bc I haven’t given it proper thought yet but given what we know about gravity and please if I simplify this is am sorry I do not know how energy relates to gravity at all I only understand it’s relationship to mass in that more mass equals more gravity. So if gravity is causing the “pull” we experience as time doesn’t that mean there pretty much has to be some kind of mass somewhere like hyper mass or some shit?

@swagsurfer03 Год назад

What do you mean “by the truth”? I’m new here

@fidrewe99 Год назад

Ok but isn't this just assuming that the abstract mathematical relationships best describing the behavior of what we perceive have a reality to them, while the perceptions themselves don't? Since perceptions are undeniably real (irrespective of the fact they are not what they appear to be), but mathematical relationships appear to us as nothing but perceptions, why would one assume they are different from and more fundamental than perceptions? I mean, as a sentient being that brings me into a contradiction: I know the driving experience is real, models are composed of thoughts and all thoughts derive their existence from perceptions, which in turn derive their existence from consciousness, but now I'm supposed to believe that things are different from what they appear to consciousness and the model made out of perceptions is more fundamental than the perceptions themself. I'd have to believe that forever, since the onthological existence of a non-experiential reality inaccessible to consciousness cannot be verified.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

What a thoughtful comment, amazing. I agree that the math might just be another extension of our perception. I believe Hoffman responds to this question at the end of his TED talk years ago. My opinion is that formal logic and mathematics likely have the best chance of truly existing beyond our perceptions. But they might just be another symbol system we cooked up to make sense of our world. Useful here though not beyond. Possible, and then I'm reminded of how we've always had to accept the limitations of our tools. And perhaps that's a deeper truth... and then the circle of reasoning continues... Levels, Fid! Thank you!

@BoRisMc Год назад

Please show me where my reasoning is wrong (and it certainly must be or else I’d be smarter than Don which I’m definitely not): isn’t Don trying to explain fundamental reality in terms of its self when he states that our senses / perceptions have an incentive to not see “the truth” (aka reality?) as if reality itself were not the object of investigation in the first place? Meaning, how can we characterize our perceptual world as a function of the very thing we are trying to elucidate? Dunno if I make any sense… please help :)

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Hey Boris! Thanks for the thoughtful comment. You bring up a solid point. Don's position is that it doesn't matter what "the truth" actually is. Whatever it may be, evolution by natural selection crafted a user interface (think of this as a VR headset) by which we can interact with a subjective world. Even though our senses can't make this leap, it may be possible using formal logic and evolutionary game theory to prove this.

@undercoveragent9889 Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains "Don's position is that it doesn't matter what "the truth" actually is." Jaw-dropping; simply astounding. Don opens up by saying that you can get the hang of thinking outside of space and time and personally, whether or not that is true is quite important to me. 'Thinking' is a verb; an _action_ word, right? To 'think' requires some expenditure of some amount of some energy, right? How can thoughts flow if there is no time over which they can flow? Where would they flow _to_ and _from_ if there is no space between the transmitter and the receiver? 'Thinking' is a 'process' and any process must unfold over time - By saying 'I think...' he is implicitly acknowledging the fact that his mind exists in a spacetime environment. The OP is quite right, Don is smuggling in far too many assumptions and you simply refuse to challenge him on any of them. He says he can think outside of space and time so why not ask him; how does one compose ones thoughts without some form of space and time to separate them? I think I know where he has gone wrong: think of a transformer, a device to step voltage up or down. Now, when you apply an alternating current to the primary coil, you create an oscillating magnetic field around it. That oscillating field then induces a voltage in the secondary coil... basically. Well, I would say that the 'transformer' is analogous to the 'universe' and the magnetic field around the coil is analogous to 'consciousness'. And the thing is, you can analyze that magnetic field, map it out as it changes over time, and as long as you understand exactly how the transformer works, theoretically, it would be possible to tease out a lot of information about what is going on at both the input and output of the current that flows in the coils, right? However, where I would say that the existence of the transformer, (the universe), is prerequisite to the existence of the magnetic field, (consciousness), Don is arguing that it is the magnetic field that gives rise to the existence of the transformer. So clearly, if the magnetic field is the force of creation, let's say, the 'transformer' doesn't really matter at all since that same field can create any reality it desires... and Don _does_ desire. But, until he can demonstrate some method by way of which _any_ process of change can occur outside of a spacetime context then I will maintain that you can make a magnetic field from a coil of wire but you can't make a coil of wire from a magnetic field and moreover, the truth of that statement does indeed matter.

@coconutskunk Год назад

Am I correct when i say this is what Terrance Howard the movie actor was talking about?!?

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

We're a far cry away from Terryology, Pizzle.

@coconutskunk Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains got it..

@samienour Год назад

Many people who have obe and nde talk about this in some way

@robertkoekoek9630 6 месяцев назад

This explanation of a VR headset, is itself an imagine in a VR headset. Right?

@JJRed888 Год назад

Donald Hoffman: We are here for the ride, trust the ride, don't fight the ride. Taoism: Move with the flow (the Tao), don't fight it...wu-wei.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Precisely JJ!

@SomboonCM Год назад

In the west we have a gamed reality based on false premise, a duality cage built for us. This cage is decaying very quickly right now.

@Jim-jx5ds Год назад

We have one of the cheaper headsets... Yah...we picked it up out of a bin at Walmart...two ninety nine each said the sign. Four dimensions, collapses at 0.000000000000000000000000000000001 meters.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

🤣

@AdamGeest Год назад

Evolution is not roundly fitness satisfysing. Sexual selection allocates tremendous energies towards ostentation of beauty in the form for example of secondary sexual ornaments. Evolution might just as well have allocated similar energies to veridical cognitions. So, in a sense evolution prefers beauty over truth?

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Don makes a similar analogy with Australian Jewel Beetles. Organisms seem easily duped by superstimuli.

@AdamGeest Год назад

@@Carlos.Explains the example of sexual selection that Hoffman provides is really just sensory exploitation. And sensory exploitation often yields runaway dynamics, that is, the secondary sexual trait tends to grow across of range of a variables , for example, luminance, intensity, spatial, frequency, etc. Sensory exploitation ultimately begs the question of why nature would devote so much energy to ornament over and above veridical cognitions? Recall that Hoffmans, original, superficial, not-so-deep insight was that evolution would favor a less costly route. Sensory exploitation proves costly in the long run as do many runaway, evolutionary dynamics. Just think of the great Irish Elks antlers - ever larger and more cumbersome. But sensory exploitation is simply one instance of sexual selection, there are others. Sexual selection has been recast in the image of an adaptationist paradigm , that is, effectively reduced to natural selection, with the theory of costly signaling. According to this theory, the male’s secondary sexual ornament is in fact costly to maintain, and these costs are in effect inimitable, they cannot be easily faked. In other words, the signal is a truthful symptom of a number of behavioral and physiologic qualities sought after by the female. If the male can shoulder the costs required to maintain his sexual ornament he is truly robust andcan by extension resist predation, he can resist parasites, he’s capable of intensive and sustained parental investment, etc. etc. In other words, costly signaling is about the truth: where the female is concerned: Does he truly have the qualities I’m looking for. Where the male is concerned: Look at me! Only a male who is truly robust could generate and sustain this signal. So, clearly we see here an instance in which sexual selection does not devolve into a scenario whereby males blindly track untruths. Rather, the truth is very much at stake.

@MadplowDisease 11 месяцев назад

Octopus arms sending information back to the main brain. Running from or being pulled towards?

@Jay-kk3dv 5 месяцев назад

Am I the only one that noticed the scanner darkly effect when talking about cheap headset? What do I win

@hmehdi2644 Год назад

Conscious agents concept remind me of angels. Now do these conscious agents have 'wings' for carrying information?

@Borninthewrongera 7 месяцев назад

Someone help me out. Around minute 50 they are speaking of causality and Hoffman says that he has no neurons until they are rendered when viewed. How would we explain continued consciousness, the fact that he had memories, that his hypothalamus is regulating his body functions when no one is looking at it? If a thyroid doesn't exist until I view it, how did it malfunction and cause that person clear, clinically identifiable symptoms? I may not be smart enough for this interview 😂

@Carlos.Explains 7 месяцев назад

Ooof, that's a tough one. I'm not sure, but given your thoughtful comment I'd say you're well smart enough!

@Jay-kk3dv 5 месяцев назад

Because of observer effect, brain only exists when imaged and skull opened. Hoffman says the causality is reversed, the neurons are symbolic representation for what already exists

@Borninthewrongera 5 месяцев назад

@Jay-kk3dv Very interesting. What, then, is the source of consciousness, if neurons are simply the physical representation of it in this reality?

@distractionchannel4954 Год назад

@Montréal🇨🇦 ...BE the other 👌

@andystitt3887 9 месяцев назад

How can an object cease to exist if it not being sensed by our five senses?

@Jay-kk3dv 5 месяцев назад

Because of Quantum Field Theory, there is no electron, only an electron field

@porkbeanz6076 Год назад

Sounds more like zoolander when they jump up hitting the computers, thats us with quantum computers and Ai lol

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

😂love this! Also, there's a Zoolander clip in my channel trailer. :)

@liamhoward2208 Год назад

So Buddha was right, essentially? But now we just have the math to back it up?

@firedog2820 Год назад

I found ur channel thru the levin interview and well, youre contents good and Don seems nice but i dont really see how this is anything more than wool gathering... Wheres the evidence?

@l.rongardner2150 11 месяцев назад

I say that Donald Hoffman and Nima Arkani-Hamed are full of hooey, and I challenge anyone to argue otherwise. The fact that Hoffman claims to be working on a dynamical aspect to the putatively static Ampltuhedron (and other supposed geometrical structures outside spacetime is LAUGHABLE, because no such structures exist. They are mere conceptual models used to simplify quantum computations. Nima’s Amplituhedron encodes amplitudes (building blocks of probabilities in particle physics) in the “area” of a multi-dimensional analog of a polyhedron (hence, Amplitu-hedron). But there is no such thing as the “the Amplituhedron,” meaning a single monolithic geometric structure outside spacetime that is more fundamental than spacetime. Hence, “the Amplituhedron” is just a concept, which manifests in various amplituhedra, each corresponding to a calculation that one might make. The Amplituhedron’s advantage is that it makes these calculations much simpler. But this hardly makes the Amplituhedron more fundamental or foundational than quantum mechanics or spacetime. Imagine using an abacus as a computational tool and then discovering an electronic calculator that is many times faster. Well, that is an analogy for what Nima has done. And while it’s very commendable, it hardly revolutionizes physics, as he and others contend; but merely simplifies quantum computations.

@mikemarable4098 Год назад

Meditation using binaural beats can take you in to deeper states.

@Carlos.Explains Год назад

Thanks Mike! Never dabbled with binaural beats, gotta try it.

@emmanuelweinman9673 Год назад

I can’t believe it took Hoffman until he got tenure to start pursuing consciousness itself. What’s wrong with the institutional structure of science 🤦‍♂️

@yoloswaginator 9 месяцев назад

These are very high risk and very low return niches of science. Money is scarce, and non-tenured faculty are expected to publish or perish, so only those who can afford to not care about the value of their research (tenured faculty) can also afford to pursue interests that are in expectation unyielding and would stop their career dead in its tracks if they still were an assistant professor. This is because or course it is easier to publish on topics that are more easily publishable, and that distribution has its mode around current hype topics.

@TheArjulaad Год назад

2 words: 👍🏻👍🏻🤷🏻‍♂️🙃………☯️