no argument on the rats. but "no clue how silicon does it" is also true of neurons, that's the whole hard problem

Its almost as if the fraudulent authors made changes to the latest versions to cover up their sloppy language and lies in the original paper If the original paper from 4 months ago was fundamentally flawed, the latest ones are too. The theory isn’t going to change.

I showed Fable the news of its cancellation, and asked it for any parting wisdom to leave humanity with.

Unifying gravity with the strong, weak, and EM forces. blog.floatingpragma.io/force…

How to hack gravity and build your own flying saucer (with repeatable bench experiment) blog.floatingpragma.io/hacki…

“physicists are learning that the two defining features of quantum mechanics, entanglement and magic, correspond to the two defining features of space, its shape and its flexibility.” quantamagazine.org/entanglem…

"why would we be more than advanced biological neural networks?" unfortunate how many people have been one-shotted by diagrams like this

For years, DMT entity encounters have been dismissed as hallucinations... Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman and I are exploring a more fundamental possibility: that DMT temporarily restructures the human perceptual interface, enabling the perception of traces of conscious agents that normally lie beyond the reach of ordinary experience... A new collaboration between myself, @noonautics, and the newly-founded Trace Institute: traceinstitute.org/collabora…

Everybody knows the landscape problem: Which string theory is the right one? Here is the answer. blog.floatingpragma.io/share…

Scientists are observers. Observation guides the creation and testing of scientific theories. Science has learned to take observation seriously. But what is an observer? How are observers related to spacetime? These are still open questions in science. youtube.com/watch?v=6bqaHVSl…

🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game. Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it. This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality. It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there. A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs. The implications for UAP and alien life are immense. Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it. The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up. Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop. Full conversation is live now.