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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, and Gödel [Theolocution]

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  • Feb 7, 2022
  • #Cognitivescience
Curt Jaimungal
@CurtJaimungal
(Host)
Donald D. Hoffman
@donalddhoffman
(Guest)
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Deep dive into the nature of consciousness and reality. Sponsors: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off. For Algo's podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ... Show More

Deep dive into the nature of consciousness and reality.

Sponsors: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off. For Algo's podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ and website https://www.algo.com/.

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LINKS MENTIONED:
-QBism Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5209
-Donald Hoffman's book The Case Against Reality (affiliate): https://amzn.to/34eWmxz
-Plato and the Nerd (affiliate): https://amzn.to/34GMexr

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:34 Is a Theory of Everything possible? / Definition of Consciousness
00:08:32 Spacetime's fundamental nature (or not)
00:14:27 Joscha Bach on mysterianism, telepathy, and consciousness
00:34:40 Joscha has a way of interpreting the Bible literally
00:42:01 Physical world vs Computational world
00:57:57 On Gödel and changing the definition of truth to provable / computable
01:12:33 What parts of the mind makes statements beyond computation?
01:13:57 Real numbers don't exist?
01:15:23 [Prof. Edward Lee] Reality is not necessarily algorithmic
01:34:02 Donald Hoffman on Free Will
01:44:03 Joscha Bach on Free Will and whether a TOE exists
01:57:10 What would change in Bach's model if classical logic was correct?
02:07:42 Penrose and Lucas argument regarding Gödel and the mind
02:13:55 Closing thoughts from Bach and Hoffman on each other's work

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Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it.

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