What Is a “Conscious Agent”? Donald Hoffman, Please Tell Me
(i) Introduction
(ii) Are Conscious Agents Primitives?
(iii) Planck-Length Conscious Agents
(iv) Reality and Conscious Agents
“If we really want to have an intelligent, and informative, and helpful discussion, we need to make sure that we’re using terms in a well-defined way that other people understand.”
— Donald Hoffman [This passage is from a video called ‘Why clear definitions are key to intelligent discussions | Donald Hoffman’. See note 1 at the end of this essay.]
“[] when you have limited math talents like me. [] That’s what led me to then go to a real mathematician [and fellow idealist] Chetan Prakash and pursue the theorems now in the case of the agent dynamics.”
— Donald Hoffman [From a YouTube video called ‘Abstract Math of Conscious Agent Theory w/ Dr. Donald Hoffman’. See Chetan Prakash.]
