Neurons, brains, and the whole of spacetime emerge as projections of deeper conscious agent dynamics, not the other way around; therefore the hard problem of consciousness is reversed—instead of explaining how consciousness emerges from brains, the question becomes how brains emerge from consciousness

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Speaker

Donald Hoffman

Evidence Quote

Consciousness is not something that brains do brains are something that Consciousness makes up

Source

Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293Lex Fridman
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:10:10 PM

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