The Basement: Donald Hoffman | Consciousness, Math, and the Case for Letting Go
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that human perception does not reveal objective reality, but instead constructs a simplified interface shaped by evolution for survival, not truth. His mathematical framework, recursive trace logic, models consciousness as fundamental and suggests
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