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Saturday, November 28, 2020

Prof Hoffman #10b - Community - Playing Basketball In Zero-Gravity - Hoffmanian Conscious Agents (2/3)

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Case Against Reality :  “I have touted the virtue of precision in a theory of consciousness. …”    (Chapter ten, ¶39) Citizenschallenge:  ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Prof Hoffman #10a - Community - Playing Basketball In Zero-Gravity - The Network of Conscious Agents (1/3)

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Cc:    Consciousness is an emergent property of biological complexity. DH:  “The notion of a conscious agent is based on intuitions that ar...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Prof Hoffman #9 - Scrutiny - Playing Basketball In Zero-Gravity - Needs, in life and business

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Hoffman starts chapter nine by repeating his drill: DH:  “Our sense forage for fitness, not truth.  They dispatch news about fitness payof...

Prof Hoffman #8 - Polychromy - Playing Basketball In Zero-Gravity - Mutations of an Interface

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DH:  “Color can speak volumes. … Color is a window into fitness - also a jailhouse. … Try to imagine a color you’ve never seen.  Can’t do it...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Prof Hoffman #7 - Virtuality - Playing Basketball In Zero-Gravity - Inflating a Holoworld

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In chapter 7 of Case Against Reality, Hoffman’s “spacetime is doomed” mantra starts sounding like a hypnotist's spell, as reality fades ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Prof Hoffman #6 - Gravity - Playing Basketball In Zero-Gravity - Spacetime is Doomed

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DH:  “If our senses were shaped by natural selection,  then the  Fitness Beats Truth Theorem  tells us we don’t see reality as it is.       ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Prof Hoffman #5 - Illusory - Playing Basketball In Zero-Gravity - The Bluff of a Desktop

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“A s long as our theories are stuck within spacetime, we cannot master what lurks behind.”  Professor Donald Hoffman   DH:  “ A venerab...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Prof Hoffman #4 - Sensory - Playing Basketball In Zero-Gravity

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Fitness Beats Truth, you’ll hear it like a drum beat throughout Hoffman’s Case Against Reality .   (last edit 11:15 am Oct 15, 2020) In orde...