Spacetime is doomeded / Realism Is False

 

Donald D. Hoffman

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"I'm not saying that consciousness just is mathematics; it's more like consciousness and mathematics are like a living organism and the bones. The bones are the mathematics and consciousness is the living organism. That's one reason why we can hope to build a mathematical model of consciousness and conscious agents."

"It turns out that our best theory, quantum theory, predicts quite clearly that non-contextual realism is false. Local realism is false, non-contextual realism is false, and that leaves it quite open that realism itself is false. If realism is false, that raises a couple of questions. Is that true only for microscopic objects—electrons, protons, neutrons, and photons—and not more macroscopic objects?"

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David Marr

Federico Faggin

Self deception

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Nos ombros dos gigantes

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The left and the right hemispheres

"Neither hemisphere is 'more advanced' or 'better' than the other; they are merely suited for different dimensions and stages of processing.  [...] The capacity to move from a 'common eye' or 'vulgar ear' into artistic skill and expertise goes with the move from right to left hemisphere predominance. [...] while musical perception is chiefly a right hemisphere function in predominantly 'naïve' listeners, it becomes a left hemisphere function in professional musicians and 'expert' listeners (who grasp its 'grammar' and rules, and for whom it has become an intricate formal structure.
[...] A similar shift occurs with those who become mathematical or arithmetical 'experts', who become able to see mathematical concepts, or numbers, as part of a vast, well-organized intellectual universe or scheme. This may be equally true of painters and interior designers, who see space, and visual relationships, as no 'common eye' can do."

Oliver Sacks in, Seeing Voices [pag 105, 106]

Red pill Blue pill / Time to change the paradigm

 "We have been misled to believe that the brain, or the embodied brain, somehow serves up the magic of consciousness. We have, in short, been duped. [...] Evolution shaped our perceptions to hide adaptive behaviour. [...] We do, and should, take it seriously. But it is a fiction — a lifesaving fiction."

Donald D. Hoffman in, The Case Against Reality [pag 179]

The first modern images of the human brain on LSD

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"None of these [above] proposals has offered a precise account for a single conscious experience. [...] No answer has been offered and none ever will: these proposals set themselves an impossible task by assuming that objects in spacetime exist when not observed and have causal powers."

Donald D. Hoffman in, The Case Against Reality [pag 180]

In search of a framework of reference

"All these brilliant people [...] felt that they were trapped by the current narratives around giftedness and high intelligence. Some of them said, 'you know, I can't even talk about myself because the minute I use these words people have a preconceived notion and I can't bust my way out '"

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