*Navigation:* [[Receptor (Process)]] *Project Folder:* Receptor *Resources:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY&t=24s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYdQYZ9Rj4&t=0s - -- # Donald Hoffman - reality vs consciousness experience - we cant solve this ? - or could we ? - **do we see reality, as it is?** - red tomato meter away ? - then i close my eyes – dark - can i be wrong? - -- - used to think that earth is flat .. beacuse it looks that way - then we thought, it is the center .. beacuse it looks that way - Galileo - " think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on ... reside in consciousness. Hence if the living creature were removed, all these qualities would be ... annihilated." - ### could we really be misinterpreting our experiences that badly? - about third of brain cortex, is visoin - vision seems like a camera - there is part of it that is LIKE A camera .. eye is like some 130 mpx camera.. - that doesnt explain synapses and neurences... neuroscience is thinking, it constructing all we see - CONSTRUCTS —> WHAT WE NEED TO SEE - ## we *RE*CONSTRUCT the reality - why reconstruct then construct - evolutionary - australian jewel beetle story - mismatched female for a glass of beer - DOES NATURAL SELECTION **FAVOR** SEEING REALITY AS IT IS? - **FITNESS** - WHAT does the steak do to fitness of an animal ? - for hungry lion – enhaces fitness - for well-fed,.. doesnt enhance fitness - fitness does depend on reality as it is AND onthe organism - its state and its action - ![[Screenshot 2023-01-24 at 18.15.08.jpg|300]] - only fitness drives to staying alive - PERCEPTION OF REALITY GOES EXTINCT - #### how can it be, that not seeing the world accurately gives us survival advantage - how can it be useful? - metaphor – desktop user interface,.. - it is not to show reality of the computer ,.. you dont want to see resistors, wires and voltages - ### it HIDES reality and GUIDES BEHAVIOR - spacetime is our UI - **evolution has shaped us with perceptual symbols that are designer to keep us alive** - there is nothing really new :) - not exactly - even if you look on the icon with mignifier glass – i see pixels and think that it is made of pixels and thats it ,... haha. but no really .. you re still on desctop – STILL IN SPACETIME (still in UI) - look, we all se the train, we each see the train, that we construct - inclined to think that the perception is like window on reality, as it is - oh no - reality is more like 3D desktop - hide the complex world,.. - spacetime – we are wrong, again - it is hard to let spacetime go.. cause we are blind to our own blindnesses - perceptual experience, which i describe as red tomato —> the reality is nothing like red tomato - experience of a lion, or a steak – the reality is nothing like - when i have perceptual experience - that i describe as brain or neurones, i am interacting with reality – but the reality is not a brain or neurones and nothing like them - that reality, whatever it is, is the real source of cause and effect of the world - brains and neurones are a species-specific set of symbols – a hack - mystery of conciousness - we need to let go massively intuitive, but massivly false assumption about the nature of reality - opens up new ways.. - PERCEPTION IS NOT ABOUT SEEING TRUTH, IT IS ABOUT HAVING KIDS - science continues,.. just the theory is false - its possible that evolution can still get you to reason - evolutionary games about perception .. that does not mean about mathematics or logic,.. - -- ### what is the propability that natural selection would shape sensory systems to see true properties of objective reality - ALMOST ZERO - what we are seeing – is WHAT WE NEED TO SEE to stay alive - most of us intuitivly think, that evolution will make our senses more fit – to see more truth - standard view, what we were thought, or just assumed - propability of zero - exception – sigma algebra, sigmative classes,.. - assumption that whatever probabilistic structure of world is not unreleated to our perception - the thing we see with our eyes is completely detatched from reality - none of this is real - ### it is real experience - ### adaptive set of perceptions - PERCEPTION IS THERE TO GUIDE ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR - not there to show the truth - there are there to HIDE THE TRUTH - like the reason of user interface - evolution gave us perception that hides the truth and give eye candy :-§ - nothing like space-time in the laws of physics - doomed - doesnt tell what is behind it - einstein gravity + quantum theory put together - entail that spacetime cannot be fundemental - just IRREDUCIBLE REPRESNTATIONS OF THE SYMMETRIES OF SPACE TIME - good ride, but it is over - -- - both space and time —> union —> doomed - even quantum theroy .. doomed - hilbert spaces, also not - they finding new structures.. succeding - ### amplituhedron - polytopes -- polyhydra - ### Dual conformal symmetry - true to scattering data - cant be seen in space time - enforce 2 critical properties of space time - whole new world beyond spacetime - making explicit symmetries that are true of the data that cannot be seen in spacetime - turning computions of bilion terms into few - —> SIMPLE - no loops... far deerer - —> to one PARK TAYLOR FORMULA - -- - now it is time for a new trick - strong contrain.. needs project into spacetime,.. - something beyond spacetime – projecting onto spacetime - -- - component of reality - isnt it better to connects your – whatever we are doing is social interactions - from an evolutionary perspective it to some degree to connect it to some universal reality - - other then something what is completely illusion - can you completely just drift away far from reality - 1 evolutionary psychology of financial systems – defi, crypto.. other then putting faith in few central controllers | democracy is step in that direction, we decentralize | DEFI even bigger step - power-to-corrupt .. evolutionary too - power does corrupt – evolutionary point of view - does the volutionary interface idea unhinge science from some kind of important test for the theries - doesnt mean anything goes - we can only test things, in terms of what wi can measure with our senses in spacetime - we gonna continue, but gonna understand a little differently - -- - POINTER exists, VALUES exists, even if nobody is seeing them - not that ANYTHING GOES - but you see what goes with that axiom system - we wont have conceptual understanding of something final - job security for sciencists – we well never know - REVERSE ENGINEERING - FAR MORE NEW WORK,.. - -- - beyond space time - projecting high dimensional structure to 4d of spacetime - all assumed is based od spacetime, which is doomed - shot to the heart of the whole conceptual framework - the fundamental ontology and methodology (reductionism) - reductionism is in fact dead - reductionist explanation —> i will start with smaller things first - assume that speed of light is universal for all observers - and laws of physiscs - that is not reductionism - it is not coming up with deep deep principles - reductionism - heat.. can be reduced to thoso molecules.. quickly moving .. etc - but now we know, somewhere it has to stop - -- - are we really far away? - understanding - for fun | so you can build things - when you really need to understand it - -- - WHATEVER REALITY IS, IS NOT WHAT YOU SEE - ISNT that paralyzing - introspect to the bottom:.? - spiritual tradition.. - saying for thousands od years - that spacetime is illusion - bottom - - beyond conceptual though - they claim - contact with deep ground of being - would make science personal - but with scientific method - if conciousness is important.. its neverending exploration - -- - solve heart problem - now showing how brains create conciseness but how networks of concious agentse creates *symbols* - that we call brains - interesteing – conciseness creates brain - no such thing as theory of everything - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron - we will always go deeper but never solve that - -- - what am i, why is chocolate so delicious - what am i ? just a projection into space time by something bigger..? - any view/projection of it will have artefact.. of .. ? - artefact of deeper system ? - limited resources . give rise to time .. to limited resource .. to evolution .. - notion of self ? - given by evolution? - can be artifact of a projection - one conscious agent - any projection of gives rise to time - maybe what consciousness is doing - is projected itself down – .. trying to find out about itself and eventually transcend? - ### NOT A SINGLE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE WE COULD EXPLAIN - -- - IS IT POSSIBLE TO VISUALIZE REALITY? - incrementali we would be able to picture that - ? - drugs .. new portals into conscious experience - taking dmt, lsd - what are we doing to conscious agents when we take it - open genuine portal ? - technology —> having kids – how we build new portals into consciosness - your son and daughter –> didnt exist – contact with consciousness - is that portal *yours?* - how much is consciousness of your kids part of you? - every person i see - the symbol - the body - is portal to potentially interact with conciseness (personality) - my own interface, my own projection – *can i see other projections? of that consciousnesses?* - how are psychedelics acting? - how can we create new portal? we know that it creates new portals - tweaking / creating - you are the author of space and time - practical implications.. - big questions,.. hate, war, evil, positives, meaning, love,.. - what is the conscious realism at had to *daily life* - life is ephemeral - everythings we do is gonna disappear - ## ephemeral - all the time recreating - everythings over and over - prosche exist when i look at it.. every one is creating his own prosche,.. - porsche exists only as long as you look.. - what spiritual traditions had been saying for so long now proves science - whole idea, why are we fighting, why do we hate,.. - we THINK everything exists outside of us - but we create it, on the fly - a lot of truth, wisdom about that ephemeral - consciousness is fundamental, NOT THE BODY - THIS is mathematics .. here is mathematical model, we can be precise - -- - game, simulation theory - like games - renders only what the player sees - research on what a feeling to give to take it as real - dont take that much - *give perception they are expecting* - experiment - closed eyes - what you see in front - dark cloud,.. - but what do you see behind? - it is not even darkness - no qualia to it ! - so immersed in simulation so we buy it so much - mortal human being - -- - god is not a being.. but being - bytí - one gone we are part of - cannot hurt the other, cause i would hurt myself - -- - you are the being creating the space and time, author of space and time - just a little data structure - textbooks gonna look silly in 50 years - but its your time to progress - only limit is your imagination - greatest books are yet to be written - -- - meaning..? - if consciousness is fundamental - and infinite variety of structures to explore for consciousness - maybe thats whats about - there is being and then there are experiences that comes up from being - somehow it is related to — why does being just stay without any forms - why do we have experiences - whats behind me - there is nothing, but there is being - why all this complacted stuff - somehow consciousness wakes up to itself to knowing what it's not - I AM my body ,.. - consciousness emerses itself fully into a particular headset, gets lost in it, and then slowly wakes up - but needs to know, what it is not