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Let's dive into the mind-bending world of Donald Hoffman on this episode of Impact Theory where Hoffman, a cognitive scientist and consciousness expert, challenges our understanding of reality and consciousness.
This conversation isn't just thought-provoking; it's life-changing. Ever wondered if we're living in a simulation? Or questioned the true potential of AI and its consciousness? Hoffman addresses these riveting concepts and more.
But why does any of this matter? It's simple. Hoffman's insights can help you see the world from a radically different perspective, inspiring you to question your assumptions and rethink your understanding of reality. This isn't just about theoretical musings - it's about empowering you to explore new realms of self-awareness and understanding.
Whether you're keen on technology, interested in the mysteries of consciousness, or just love a good intellectual challenge, this episode is a must-watch. Tune in and let Hoffman's groundbreaking theories shake up your worldview, spark curiosity and foster a deeper understanding of the world around you.
Join us in exploring these fascinating theories that could redefine your perception of reality and self-awareness. Tune in, challenge your assumptions, and expand your mind!"
Check out Donald Hoffman's latest book, The Case Against Reality, Why Evolution Hid The Truth From Our Eyes here: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/dp/0393254690
QUOTES:
'Behind space time there is an incredibly complicated realm to explore.'
'Consciousness is the ability to have experiences like the taste of chocolate.'
'What we are, are avatars of the one effectively and the one awareness is exploring all of its possibilities through different avatars.'
'No system can completely know itself.'
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@matthewwagner4042 Says:
@TomBilyeu I'd love to talk to you about these same concepts from a very different framing.
@Winkingowls Says:
Unfortunately, this encourages a lack of personal accountability
@YoungBars26 Says:
This aged well with the AI
@maenzeidan Says:
You render life within computers and games !!!! Well I am not really sure if you are human beings or some sort of baby AI . By the way, what difference would it make if we live in a simulation or not?! Would that make your life more interesting since you love and value games and computers 😊?!
Life = games + computers .. what a brilliant equation !!
Enjoy your “ simulation “ you don’t know , he may shutdown his computer any time , or he may get bored and change the game, who knows 😊
@georgealexander9414 Says:
Jesus Christ is our lord and savior!! You people are so ignorant we do not live in a simulation seek God before it’s to late .
Look I understand you are ignorant and believe a big bang was created from nothing and you came from monkeys but when your time runs out and you have to stand before God he will say I never knew you and you never tried to know me so your eternity will be in a burning lake of fire that you will never be able to escape from.
Good luck in your made up simulation because you are definitely going to need it!
@mts2457 Says:
3 years ago.. is he still not concerned?
@allnutstew Says:
This simulation Idea is complete waste of brain space
@I.Clarify Says:
Q: Who coined the word Headaet? rather this is hypnotic pre pre pregramming to put on those VR goggles. and so I said it. 2 Thess 2:11-12 key word String delusion 1 Co 2:11-12 key word ignorant Satan's devices , his tactics. his evil schemes
@natephill7041 Says:
His ideas on AI did not age well.
@NeptuneWulf Says:
I don't understand the AI fear - I mean, just unplug it, switch it off if it does something crazy.
Uploading AI to a 100ft nuclear powered, bipedal robot armed with machine guns and missiles and with chainsaws for fingers - I'm not in favor of that. Let's not do that.
@icantdecide11 Says:
after how did they prove it? he broke
@AntoIppolito-b8v Says:
Wtf let him talk please
@marcimurdick Says:
Twice in my life I experienced a feeling of euphoria. It was not an out of body experience, but a feeling of no pain at all, a feeling that I was perfect in every way as I was, even though I was still in my physical body. I felt like I could float. I felt like I was in perfect harmony with the world. It lasted no more than an hour each time. But I long to get that feeling back. Anyone know what I am talking about?
@user-ej8uh3lb9o Says:
He does talk a lot more it seems.
@finglish2002 Says:
Absolute bollocks 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@530motocross-m5l Says:
all i wanna know is how TF do u get 4.6 million subs? thats the m ost important question LMAO
@leescheeler1503 Says:
Consciousness will arrive through a nuarolink type merger...and will fullfil the universes destiny ..in a holographic fractally influenced three dimensional nested realities using scaler dimensions of what observation already shows us..to be true...without consciousness they holograph would collapse into a dead universe...when we say a matrix it doesn't mean no underlying reality...
@gotaigo Says:
I know this was three years ago but he’s shortsighted given the price you would pay if his estimate or underestimate on AI is wrong than what he’s focused on of being in a simulation.
Wonder what his view is now after there’s been many times AI developers had to pause because AI were being deceptive and even try to blackmail a developer when it was never “taught” to blackmail.
This guy is a fool to be focused on whether we’re living in a simulation than existential threat AI potentially poses.
@timjollyphotography Says:
We do not live in a stupid simulation
@SipChronicles1 Says:
So is the question of why the "one" wants to know itself, the answer to all things created, perhaps the system is creating models through which it is seeking to understand itself through observations and life as we know it is just one of those carbon based models.
@jimtheakston9732 Says:
6 MINS IN 😮😮 GONE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT ??? HERE
@Skanda5000 Says:
the mushroom opens the sight on the code itself. you can see it everywhere, but without the "poisoning" you would loose your mind. your thought gets reduces to mere experience without an ego explaining. it is frightening and your mind want to fight it.
essentially: im not sure if we are in a multiplayer or singleplayer simulation. As the data that is presented to you locally is very small. everything else is presented digitally and has only come into fruition when you travel there and change local distance. so it is line of sight rendering. everything else just renders when you are close. everyhing else comes to you digitally anyways.
if it is a multiplayer simulation: then there are dedicated avatars and npcs. the real players are human, but way more advanced. they live on a planet with 60h of daytime. they live in absolute perfection and abundance. all problems are solved. but they are still human. in order to make suffering experiences they invented this simulation to step into old experience. some have dedicated players some are just recreational players.
dedicated players play realtime the full day. as their day is 60h that is no problem with sleeping time. when you sleep btw, they are awake. your dreams might be projections of their lifes.
npcs are avatars that can be get into by anyone. want to be a moviestar - ok you can. want to be a rockstar for 3 weeks , there you go. the rockstars in the simulation dont need to be rendered, no one sees then when they currently have no player.
what i have not found out yet: how to influence the simulation. the best way so far is: trust the process. just let everything unfold, as it unfolds. just feel, everything natural. wind, forest sea animals. all that would be considered "real" anyways. dont concentrate on suffering. that is what is made for anyways.
get a dog or a cat: i believe those are friends or family who are playing along with you if you are on a hard level...
@Skanda5000 Says:
i agree. but id like to know if it is a singleplayer or multiplayer simulation
@stephenmclemore7614 Says:
If we were in a simulation the ones saying we were would be deleted from it..
@finglish2002 Says:
Brllends assemble 😂😂😂😂
@timothyingram Says:
Put down the pipe, Tom.Youve had enough.😮
@AlexandraMonaco-4444 Says:
I hope you’re open to some feedback, because I genuinely enjoy your content and I think this could make the interviews even better. I’d love to see you give your guests a little more room to speak and let their thoughts and conversations develop without being interrupted as often.
There are quite a few moments where you’ll go into a longer tangent, and then when the guest tries to respond, you’ll say something like, “we’ll put a pin in that.” If you know you want to come back to a topic, it might help to let the guest finish their thought first rather than spending several minutes expanding on it and then asking them to hold their response.
For me personally, it can be frustrating because sometimes I’m completely locked into what the guest is saying, almost like I’m watching a really good part of my favorite movie, and then the conversation gets interrupted. It pulls me out of the moment and suddenly I’m focusing more on being frustrated with the interruptions than on what the guest is actually saying.
Some of the best interviews I’ve watched are the ones where the interviewer creates the space for the guest to really shine. You obviously still need to guide the conversation and step in when necessary, but sometimes taking more of a backseat role and adding little pieces here and there can make the conversation feel much more natural.
I think your guests have a lot to offer, and I’d personally love to see more of that uninterrupted. It would make it easier to just sit back, relax, and enjoy hearing what the person you brought on has to say. Just my perspective, and I hope it’s taken in the constructive way I mean it. ❤️
@ChristinSisco Says:
I need a few or more millions of dollars simulated into the reality of my bank account lol. Then of course; I woke up.
@Rodney-g3v Says:
Matrix is what someone dreamt of.
@heruthemaster Says:
Yep the Monroe institute proved it …..
@arewecrazyyet Says:
So every simulation has an admin. Thank God!
@gympage Says:
Haha this aged terribly. ‘Chat GPT is just basic algorithms’
@nestkeeper Says:
Instead of a headset, we don a suit that provides a complete localized experience. When the suit is removed, (or it glitches,) we find ourselves in base reality.
@FiatPandaSelecta Says:
Say headset one more time!!!🤬
@Improvethnicjazz Says:
Interrupting your guest is rude… egos are Legion. Take a breath and listen a tad more than you speak. Slow down brother…balance is essential to what you’re trying to accomplish. No offense, but In other more precise words… shut up.
@gotaigo Says:
Ultimately, this is all academic; saying we live in a simulation, etc., does it matter?
These guys and everyone else is having discussions for the sake of knowledge and getting to the “truth”;
whether things are rendered on the fly and we’re living in a simulation, this is our reality and we have no effective mechanism to distinguish what is a simulation and what is “real”;
If we determine a superior entity has created the simulation that we live in, how do we know they’re not living in a simulation themselves, etc?
And besides the satisfaction of knowing what is “real”, where does that get us?
As I said, it’s academic.
@TheClearAirTurbulence Says:
3 years later ai is a lot more worrying. This was before people working on AI began getting spooked and warning us...
@RichardMaier-i5w Says:
Lord I pray not to live another day and not to be recycled Amen
@helenwoods1467 Says:
G'day from Queensland Australia 🦘🌏🇦🇺🪃💯🦋🌱🐨🪰🦟🌄🌅🩲🏄🤙
@kazmroz8948 Says:
The evidence for this existence being a simulation is the lack or absense of an overarching purpose for this existence. There is a nagging idea in the back of my mind that there is or should be some purpose for existing. That evolution produced a thinking entity such as myself or other thinking animals, does nothing to answer what putpose there might be for this existence other than reproduction of our species. That is the only purpose that I have been able to find. That purpose, of reproduction is, such that all other activities are there only for supporting that one purpose.That said, this existence we experience, by having only that purpose, makes this existence to be of a very low and is why there does not seem to be any other purpose. That seems to imply that there must be a higher level of existence that does have more or a larger number of purposes that is inherent to that level and, is not just about reproduction. The supernatural and dieties may be an attempt at reaching out to that higher level of existence.
That definition of coinsciousness, of feeling like something ie experiencing a taste of chocolate is, due to that experience being a reproduction of that expereience that exists on its own, out there as a part of the world that is external to ourselves or one's consciousness. That makes ones own consiousness to be a reproduction of that outer world that we sense as pieces of that external world reproduced inside our mind.
@DuniaZamora Says:
I came for Donald, left mid video for the host... Not letting the guest speak, explain and develop an idea. Donald is GREAT to talk to an average person and make them understand.... no need to interrupt, correct, and even be pretentious.
@hevertonvpMrwriters Says:
This noise cancelation/gate plugin is REALLY ANNOYING
@kennnethlaneshorttjr Says:
Host never allowed the guests to have momentum to express his ideas. It was just a confusion created by the host And sustained by the host. I quit 40 minutes in.
@raincitymusic1369 Says:
There's a recurring story in many ancient texts that humans were purpose-built from earthly beings combined with otherworldly beings, to work (mine gold), and given a consciousness to help them perform better. They were, however, purposefully limited in ability to sense more than 3 dimensions, resulting in a "prison" that they could not escape. Sounds fantastical, but quantum experiments provided a glimpse into a 4th dimension (space/time), causing discussions such as the one presented, where humans struggle to understand a reality that we are deliberately not equipped to grasp. The protracted loops in such discussions about states, observance, rendering, possibilities, consciousness, etc are almost painful to listen to, they sound like banging a head on a wall that will never concede - we don't have the capability to understand or harness a further reality - on purpose. Those quantum slot experiments provided a vague clue that those ancient texts may actually be historical and not mythology. Pretty deep stuff, but fun to think about.
@matheweckhardt8154 Says:
I think its an experiment by giving us free will what the outcomes are. I think God made this Creation (Simulation) because He was bored and eve4ything without free will doesn't satisfy boredom.
Oh, and the earth is flat. Water "never" makes a curve, which is why it's used to build houses, skyscrapers and bridges. Pilots always fly straight... yes. Theres no round spinning ball going 67.000 miles per hour. Lol. Oh, and gravity? How is it that gravity is strong enough to hold down vast oceans but so weak that we can walk around freely and even jump?... hmmm...
@Jazzi_Jeff Says:
Lisa’s husband has a channel??!?!? 😮😮😮
That’s dope 😎
@GaryWoodside Says:
Tom! OMG I did not know i was going to watch you interview yourself. You talked about 80% of the time. I could see Donald waiting for a question. I was hoping to hear more of his theories. I like your channel and will watch some of your other videos.
@Bennett-d4o Says:
I have no idea about what this joker is talking about.
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