Networks of conscious agents form a single conscious agent through their interactions, because any two conscious agents that interact satisfy the mathematical definition of a conscious agent; therefore there is one conscious agent but it has useful analytic decompositions into sub-agents at all scales

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Speaker

Donald Hoffman

Evidence Quote

when you have two of these conscious agents interacting they the the pair satisfy a definition of a conscious agent so they are a single conscious agent

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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