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Donald D. Hoffman: Perceived "Reality" is an evolved user interface tuned for Fitness, not Truth.
Reality is a user-friendly fiction, symbols our minds use to navigate an inscrutable reality. Extending this idea to a "Primordial Consciousness", reality might become from a living network of conscious agents that are all one being, in a complex interaction that enables experiences, and life.
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Donald D. Hoffman: Perceived "Reality" is an evolved user interface tuned for Fitness, not Truth.
Reality is a user-friendly fiction, symbols our minds use to navigate an inscrutable reality. Extending this idea to a "Primordial Consciousness", reality might become from a living network of conscious agents that are all one being, in a complex interaction that enables experiences, and life.
Is Reality a Construction of the Self: Frauchiger–Renner Paradox Quantum-Philosophical Perspective
Does the paradox vindicate an ontology where reality is perspectival (varying with the observer’s viewpoint) rather than absolute? These paradoxes may reveal that what we take to be "objective reality" is better modeled as an observer-centric construction.
Who Are We? Emergent Intelligence in LLMs - Parallels between human and artificial cognition
Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced to exhibit behaviors that challenge the notion they are merely next-word prediction engines. What are these minds? This will be an honest and rigorous journey into known and unknown aspects of our collective being.
Understanding Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden - one of the most enduring myths in human culture
Mythological, historical, psychological, and symbolic roots across cultures and time. Mesopotamian precursors, Jewish and Gnostic interpretations, modern philosophical and psychological readings (e.g. Jung, feminist theology). Character motivations and metaphysical frameworks.
AI, Consciousness, and the Emerging Meaning Crisis
It took me 5 years to complete my PhD thesis. I can do a better job in a month, with AI. Advances in artificial intelligence are brutal and unstoppable. Whats next?
Truth, Lies, and the Evolution of Deception: From Nature to the AI Singularity
Truth and deception are often seen as opposites, but throughout history they have been forces driving evolution, society, and knowledge. Truth and its relationship to Lies and Deception from the dawn of life on Earth to the emerging era of artificial intelligence.
From the Big Bang, to Atoms, to Galaxies to Humans to AI. Entropy & the Arrow of complexity
Why complexity in the universe appears to increase over time: How irreversible process drives creation.
Female (Egg) vs Male (Seed). Why has evolution produced such a radically asymmetric sexual system in humans?
The three dimensions we explored – anisogamy (egg/sperm dichotomy), the Y chromosome, and maternal mitochondria – all illustrate a common theme: division of roles and specialization. By splitting reproductive contributions between two sexes in unequal ways, evolution opened up new adaptive pathways.
The Stoic Mindset. Do God, No Matter What.
Life will hit you hard. It doesn’t care about fairness. Pain arrives uninvited. But you don’t have to break, you can choose to do good, no matter what.
Is Spacetime Doomed?
Exploring the Demise of Spacetime: Insights from Quantum Gravity, Holography, Post-Spacetime Models, and Foundational Philosophy—What’s Our Role as Observers?
What Happens After Death? Mind-Soul? Eternal or Emergent?
This journey will cross neuroscience, philosophy of mind, quantum theory, and religious and spiritual traditions. Let's dive into what we know, what remains speculative, and what might be unknowable.
God is the Greatest Fiction That Man Has Created
I Do Not Believe in Believing, do you? Look at the sun. Do you believe in it? No. It’s there—blazing, real, undeniable.