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  1. “Such an unconventional path. It's very hard for me to. Give advice based on that path. But I do believe that it's extraordinarily important to keep your passions alive, to keep your curiosity alive, to keep your wonder at life alive, however you do that. And it doesn't necessarily have to be in your career. And I think for a lot of people, their career enables them the time and the space to Experience other things that You know, maybe wouldn't be as enjoyable if they were their career.”

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  2. “There's no such thing as luck when you believe in free will, right? They're all illusions. Really start in retrospect started working on my book. 30 years ago and had no idea that I was working on a book. And this kind of ties into my advice, which is I think it's really important to follow your passion To find things that you love and that you find inspiring and motivating and exciting, whether they relate to your career or not. And I think Many times, if you persist just for the pure passion of Thing itself finds a way. Into your everyday life”

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  3. “Haven't really had this conversation with my kids. I mean, we have lots of deep conversations and they're all kind of. To each moment or whatever they're facing. I think career is difficult because in so many ways I just feel like I'm lucky that I ended up being able to do. For a living, the thing I love to do. There's no”

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  4. “It's interesting. I've never been drawn to the why questions. I'm interested in the what and the how. What is life? What is this place? What are we doing? How are we here? How is this taking place? But I mean, if I had to answer. I guess I don't think there is a why really. It's funny the quote. The thought that comes to mind is really like a kind of a cheesy quote that I'm sure is printed on a bunch of mugs and t-shirts, but it's Tikhnat Han. I'm going to get it wrong, but it's something like we're here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. And I don't really see that as an answer to the why question, although that's how it's framed in his quote. We are here for that purpose. I think if there is a purpose worth being here for, that's kind of the ultimate, I think.”

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  5. “part of nature it means If feeling good is surviving and thriving, nothing survives and thrives forever. So you just encounter suffering. It's just built in.”

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  6. “Yes, where I stand with it. And I'm, for some reason, still optimistic that we can get ourselves to a different place, but the way things currently are or the way things have always been for animals and humans and I think any conscious life form is. To me, the suffering seems so much more impactful and powerful than any happy, for lack of a better word, experience that No happy experience is worth Its equivalent experience of suffering.”

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  7. “Oh yeah, no. I mean, that was my first rejection of many worlds, just my psychological rejection of it was. Just imagining the multiplication of all the suffering. I just, I mean, I spend a lot of time. Thinking about consumed by and trying not to be overwhelmed by the depth of human suffering. To imagine many worlds with is just...”

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  8. “Coming into being, right? And so there is under that view, I mean, there are different ways to look at the fundamental nature of reality without consciousness and kind of come up with a similar view, but That view, it is just kind of one, it's one thing with different experiences popping up.”

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  9. “Space of ideas. So many things I want to say now, but here's one thing the way I think about consciousness if it's fundamental. Is analogous to a pot of boiling water where the water is the consciousness and the bubbles are the conscious experiences. And so it is all one thing. And then there are these shapes that take form. And there's a felt experience, right? It's all felt experience. And so when we're able to let go of this sense of self or this illusion of self, the idea that experiences are happening to something or to someone drops out. And what you get is just experiences arising. So there's the fundamental nature of the universe, which obviously has a structure and obeys laws. But what you get out of that are appearances of different conscious experiences.”

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  10. “Great, y Well, I just started working without a clear. A clear image of the end result. Although it started with an idea for a film, I don't know. I guess I have a feeling I was wondering if I talked about this with you before anywhere, but probably not. Yeah, because you and I have never spoken”

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  11. “No, it's rare, and you recognize it when you have it. When you have a great collaboration, I mean, in science, but also in other areas. And in this TED production I'm working on, I just happen to be working with this producer where we had this instant connection and the chemistry is great. And I have so much fun recording with her. It's like, it's so great to have, I usually work alone and it's been wonderful to have.”

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  12. “Yeah, I mean, I don't know. For me, the more time I spend practicing meditation, seeing through these illusions, the more poignant My conscious experience becomes and love is obviously one of the most powerful and one of the most positive experiences we have. And I don't know. Whatever its cause is, there's just something miraculous about it in and of itself and for itself.”

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  13. “I mean, in so many ways, it's the most important role. I don't think any of these realizations I mean, if anything I think it enhances it. But I don't think they, I mean, it kind of goes back to the levels of usefulness.”

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  14. “And then I kind of found this alternate. I don't know if other people have done this, but I found this alternate use for it, which is even more useful to me, which is I'm able to do it sometimes. I'm able to just sit with someone and get my imagination going and imagine there really is no conscious experience there in that person. And what happened for me the first few times I was able to do this is it reminded me exactly of how I feel when I look at complex plant behavior and other behaviors in nature where I assume there's no conscious experience. And to me, it just flips everything. It just flips everything on its head. It just gets you to be able to be open to possibilities that you are close to before. And I think that's useful”

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  15. “That I can't fathom all of your behavior and everything that you're doing and about without consciousness. So it gets you to ask this question. And these are the questions I begin my book with. What is consciousness doing? It gets you to ask that question in a deeper way.”

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  16. “So for me, I mean, I don't like spending much time on it. I think it has limited use for sure. And I understand your annoyance with it. But for me, what's so useful about it is it gets you to ask the same questions you're asking when you're looking at robots. If you just run the experiment and you say, okay, I'm sitting here with Lex, what if I try to trick myself? What's different about the world if someone tells me actually he's a robot is essentially what the Zalmi experiment is. He's over there. He has no conscious experience. He's acting there. There's no experience there. So it gets you to ask some interesting questions. One is, okay, when it seems impossible, I just think, no, that's makes no sense. I can't even imagine that. Okay, what do I think consciousness is responsible for? What is consciousness doing in that human over there that is...”

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  17. “Our circumstance and nature, what does that say? Yeah. But yeah, I do that with plants all the time. I go back and forth. But the zombie thought experiment now, at least for me, is often presented as AI because now that's easier as a robot because that's easier. I don't know if it's just because it's in pop culture now in the form of films and television shows, but it's easier to get to that point of contemplation, I think, by imagining. A rob”

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  18. “You can do this with plants too. I mean, there's some complex enough behavior. That looks like free will from a certain angle. And it makes you wonder, it makes you wonder two things. One, Is there consciousness associated with that processing? And two, if there isn't What does that say about our experience?”

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  19. “And so, yeah, I mean, in terms of AI, if they're conscious and there's a sense of self and memory, which I think I actually think you need memory to have a sense of self. Actually, sorry, I take that back. I actually think you can have a really primitive sense of self without memory. But an AI that is conscious, that has memory and a sense of self-capable, absolutely.”

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  20. “So then it's a different question, but I would. That memory increases suffering. Globally. So that if any moments of suffering Only existed for itself in the present moment. That is a lesser kind of suffering than a suffering that is drawn out over time through memory.”

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  21. “Isn't that what ethics is all about? It's about suffering. I think to me, ethics is all about suffering and well-being. And I don't know what ethics is without that.”

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  22. “Nightmarish as that scenario is, and I'm not suggesting we should ever do this, I would say if our only option were to erase your memory of it, that would be the more ethical thing to do than to have you maintain that memory because the suffering is then carried. Across a longer distance through time.”

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  23. “Yeah, I mean, this is not an area. That I have spent for me I have not spent a lot of time thinking about this. Most people expect that I have. It's interesting. These types of questions are much less interesting to me than the other questions. And I think it's because I'm interested in the physics of things. I'm somewhat interested, I'm definitely interested in ethical questions for human beings, but I have spent very little time thinking about the implications for other types of intelligence. I will say that I think the capacity for suffering of a conscious system goes up with memory and with a sense of self. So, if you take, if anesthesia only erased your memory and it didn't actually make you unconscious, you actually experienced. Horrifically experienced some surgical procedure, but we could completely wipe out your memory of it.”

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  24. “I would say, I mean, just on my own use of these words, suffering is only something that can happen in a conscious experience.”

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  25. “An entirely completely non human conscious experience. And whether it even feels like a self, I think, would be a big question mark.”

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  26. “So, I mean, this answer is slightly different or very different depending on whether I kind of follow the assumption that consciousness emerges at some point in physical processing, or whether it's fundamental, since I've just chosen to stay on the fundamental channel. I mean, then it's kind of a silly answer because if consciousness is fundamental in the way I currently think about it, the only way I imagine it working. Every physical thing we perceive is a representation of a conscious experience. So, I mean, yes, it's true of everything in the world. However, I would say if that's the case. Even though there's a way in which it's behaving in similar ways to a human being, the way it's constructed, what it is actually made of and the physics of it is so different that I would”

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  27. “I think about physics and mathematics being a description of the structure of it. And that when mathematicians say things like that or physicists say things like that, it makes sense. If we're talking about Conscious experience of some sort.”

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  28. “It seems like that too. No, no. So I said an experience of being a self is due to memory. It seems that consciousness and time are inextricably linked, but I think that may be an illusion also. And when I think about consciousness being fundamental and someone like Max Tegmark, I don't know if there are other mathematicians. I'm sure there are. He's the only one I know of who will talk about mathematical forms and shapes as not just being, he talks about them as being actual. Objects in nature that exist that are not just mathematical structures that we can think about, but any mathematical structure that comes out of the math actually exists in reality. And so when I think about consciousness being fundamental.”

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  29. “It's also very hard to think about consciousness without time. And that's something that's really interesting for me to think about too. Although not that this is scientific evidence of anything, but I and many others have had the experience, a timeless, spaceless experience in certain states of meditation and under the psychedelic caution.”

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  30. “And there are physicists who think that space is emergent, but time is still fundamental, and Lee Smolin is one of those scientists. And it's really interesting to talk to him about this. But yeah.”

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  31. “And he talks about, he's a great science writer and he talks about ways to kind of absorb what this would mean, this ADS CFT duality. And he talks about, he gives an example of music as an analogy that two different notes can exist in three dimensions as if the other doesn't exist because of the frequency of the sound waves and that in another way you can think of the sound waves existing in different dimensions. I don't know if that's”

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  32. “The experience of it that we're having. So to go back to the idea that all of reality could be contained in two dimensions and there's something about the interaction between different points that cause this holograph so that it seems like there's a three-dimensional world when in fact it's a projection of this two-dimensional surface. What we experience as space still References something at the fundamental level. It's just that it's not space. And that is something that makes a lot of sense to me. I also posted an excerpt George Musser wrote a great book, Fuki Action at a Distance. Spooky Action at a Distance”

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  33. “These connections between events that we perceive as time are actually just part of the fabric of reality. There's some structure to reality at a deeper level where it's like shining a flashlight on the structure of reality where for us, for whatever reason, everything else disappears and the only thing that exists is that single pinprick of light that we happen to be inhabiting or that we can perceive, but that the rest of it is there. And so that even though time would be an illusion and the causality in the way we experience it is an illusion, or it doesn't mean what we think it means, it's still pointing to a deeper structure. There's something that it To know that. He would agree with that, that our perceptions. Map onto something. It's just not.”

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  34. “What could time be if it's not the way we experience it? What could it be pointing to? And I'm not the first person to think like this. Many people have, you know, developed different thought experiments around this. And this is, I'm not saying this is the way things are, but this is just one solution is that time and causality Appear to us the way they do because for whatever reason we're only perceiving one moment at a time.”

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  35. “But the larger point is that yes, whatever is true about the fundamental nature of reality is not something we're experiencing. However, it is linked and gives us clues to it. So one image I came up with recently actually wrote about this. I have an article in Nautilus about time because I was as I spend time thinking about what it would mean for consciousness to be fundamental. And at the same time, I'm talking to physicists about different interpretations of quantum mechanics and the fact that the ones I'm talking to believe that space and time are emergent and are not part of the fundamental story. I was thinking about what is it”

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  36. “That has always seemed right to me. And that's always the thing that I feel like I'm looking for, that it's funny. Recently I was thinking that it's as if I feel like I'm, and this is more how I was thinking of how I felt as a child, but I feel this way a lot as an adult too, that the image is one of a snow globe that I'm confined to this snow globe based on my human perceptions and the truth of reality is out there. And it's actually why I'm so drawn to shaking intuitions. I feel like every time we shake up an intuition, it's like an opportunity to leave the snow globe for a moment. You know, it's like smashing the marbles and seeing, oh, it's not liquid in there like I thought. It's getting this glimpse of something truer than what we typically experience.”

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  37. “So, this is an intuition that for whatever reason has always felt true to me. This is the way I thought about things as a child. I've met other people that felt this way when I've had experiences in psychedelics. And this is where I start to sound crazy too. But”

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  38. “Well, I mean, this is where I've gone in all of my conversations with physicists because the idea is, so if we just have the basic principle that reality and all of the information can be contained or is actually in a two-dimensional space that gets projected, this is something that you don't buy based on the look on your face. No, no.”

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  39. “What he will agree. So, what I would say to that, and when I've posted this to him, I really don't want to speak for him, but I'll answer it myself and say that I believe he agrees with what I'm about to say, which is that The things we perceive. Are connected to the structure of reality. It's just that the structure of reality is made of something completely different than the thing we're experiencing. So imagine, if you just go with the holographic principle, loosely, and actually the holographic principle applies to black holes only. So there's ADS CFT duality, anti-decidter space, and conformal field theory. Am I getting all these terms right?”

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  40. “Yes, and he's not just saying that we really only have this tiny window onto reality. He's saying that that window onto reality Is giving us a lot of false information. It's not true.”

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  41. “Although I think we already know that as well. I mean, if any version of string theory is correct, and of course we don't know yet, it's all up for grabs, but the truth is each theory is weirder than the last. If there are 15 dimensions of space, we are just not wired. Be able to understand the fundamental reality”

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  42. “Right. There's a sense in which Hoffman is saying is already, we already know to be the case. So our brains are creating this conscious experience. Based on these interactions with the outside world, it is in some sense all a controlled hallucination. And someone like Anil Sessa from the neuroscientific point of view actually have a quote here somewhere if you have any interest in hearing the quote. But he's essentially saying everything we experience as a perception, including our experience of time and space. So we still don't really know what our experience of space represents out there in the world. And then, of course, when you talk to physicists about the different interpretations of quantum mechanics, I mean, where physics seems to be headed across the board at this point is that space and time are emergent, that they're not part of the fundamental fabric of reality. And so there are some ways in which”

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  43. “Well, I mean, the truth is that if you talk to a neuroscientist like Anil Seth, and I would say most neuroscientists, but he's really good on this subject. And his expertise and his area of focus is in perception. So he talks a lot about how our perceptions give us an experience of the world. And he calls it a controlled hallucination. I'm sorry. I think he says that he got that term from someone else, but that's the term he uses.”

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  44. “It's possible we have a very similar view of the universe if consciousness is fundamental. It may be an identical view. It's hard for me to know because I disagree with a lot of his terminology.”

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  45. “Yes. And So, I actually now have recorded three conversations with him for this project I'm working on, yeah. Every conversation we have, we seem to land on the same place, but this last conversation we had, it seemed to be even more clear that. Semantics really get in the way. When you get into the weeds in these conversations, it's almost like we need some new terminology because it's hard to know sometimes whether we're talking about the same thing. I have issues with his terminology that when we talk about what his terminology represents, it seems like we completely agree.”

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  46. “About it being fundamental. I think we're both just, we both agree that this is a legitimate. Question to ask at this point in science is consciousness fundamental? And I really see it as a question, and I think he does too.”

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  47. “Sam and I interviewed him. Yeah, sorry, most of the conversations I've had with him are private, they're not public. But we used to meet before the pandemic we were meeting about monthly to discuss ideas.”

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  48. “Yeah, I mean, it's a little bit like I have two children and a lot of people with two children will say when you're preparing to have the second one and soon after you've had the second one that having two is kind of like having three because you are nourishing and protecting and overseeing each individual life, but then there's the sibling relationship, which is almost another thing.”

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  49. “Is that we are these systems in nature that are not at all isolated. And there are the obvious ways, like if I just stop drinking water, that's going to change the system very drastically, right? So there's just, you know, the energy consumption, but the fact that we exchange ideas is part of who I am is everyone I've interacted with. And of course, the people I interact more with have sculpted me more. But we, our brains are sculpted through our interactions with each other as well.”

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  50. “Know how quickly it goes down if you just take one out, it depends on which one. I think I half agree and half disagree with what you're saying Yeah, I mean, the other thing you notice when you spend a lot of time in meditation and when you spend a lot of time kind of shaking up these intuitions that I think get in the way of clearly Thinking about what consciousness is.”

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