We discuss the 2023 Fusions of Consciousness paper by Donald Hoffman and collaborators. 4 levels of reality result in our experience within spacetime. Conscious agents are examined in-depth. There's a potential link with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point, which Hoffman shares for the first time publicly.

🚩Fusions of Consciousness Paper https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/1/129 (Can be downloaded or read within browser window)

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❶ Fusions of Consciousness
0:00 "The first time I've mentioned this publicly"
1:50 Mapping Consciousness to Physics
5:35 Dynamics of Decorated Permutations
9:30 4 Levels: Conscious Agents / Decorated Permutations / Amplituhedron / Spacetime
13:50 What's special about Decorated Permutations? (Technical)
21:50 "So much about consciousness that cannot be modeled."
22:50 Related to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem \ Cantor's Hierarchy

❷ Conscious Agents (Level 1)
27:05 Experiences & probabilistic relationships are fundamental
28:45 What makes them "agents"?
30:50 How does 1-agent make decisions? Color example
32:30 What kicks off dynamics, what happens at bootup?
34:00 What is the menu of an agent's possible actions?
35:35 When do dynamics transition from boring to interesting? (Fusions)
40:40 Is this goal-directed?
42:10 Any mechanism for developing preferences? (1st time asked this question)
43:00 Are these conscious agents seeing the truth or modeling fictions?

❸ Mapping the Territory
46:10 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point & Trace Chains
51:53 Conscious agents need a menu of actions, minimum space for probabilities... map-territory relationship?
53:50 Is mathematics itself fundamental? Math is like the bones...
55:10 Is there any territory? One infinite intelligence...
57:40 Don's process for breakthroughs
59:20 Teaser for round 3 topics

🚾 Works Cited
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.darkmatteressay.org/evolu...
https://www.languageonthemove.com/wp-...

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