Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality

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Deep dive into the nature of consciousness and reality.

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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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