Panpsychism (the view that consciousness is a fundamental property added to physical particles) is a form of dualism that takes spacetime as fundamental and adds consciousness as an additional property; this is less parsimonious than conscious realism, which starts with consciousness as the only fundamental thing
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“the psychist perspective well it's actually what I call the conscious realist perspective panus are are effectively dualists right they're saying there's physical stuff that really is fundamental and then Consciousness stuff so I would go with Pinker and say look let's just stipulate the Consciousness stuff but I'm not going to stipulate the physical stuff”
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Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293— Lex FridmanCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:10:10 PM
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