Donald Hoffman ✓
@donalddhoffman · Irvine, CA · joined 14 May 2010
Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Research: Visual perception, evolutionary psychology, consciousness, AI.
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Physicalist theories have not yet explained even one specific conscious experience. Why do they all fail?
I look forward to be in New Jersey on Oct. 3 for a public interview and Q&A on consciousness, AI, and reality beyond spacetime.
Tickets are limited
https://t.co/BbwWgJdGof
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It was a pleasure to talk with Crystal on SoulPod about why consciousness has stumped scientists for decades, and why spacetime is like a multiplayer VR headset created by conscious observers.
https://t.co/ZkeAXppmJV
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“Ivette Fuentes discusses Roger Penrose's quantum theory of consciousness while arguing that solving the mystery of consciousness may require a profound revolution in physics itself.”
https://t.co/AWSmZe63Bq
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@donalddhoffman Incorrect. To quote Planck: Consciousness is fundamental.
All orderly phenomena in the universe are products of consciousness. Professor Hoffmann's claim is merely an imaginary mathematical thought, based on the premise that "space is eternal, and time does not e
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@donalddhoffman I found your distinction here genuinely fascinating.
You reject the claim that computation creates consciousness, but you still allow that interacting with an AI may be interacting with consciousness, with the algorithm functioning as part of the perceptual interf
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@donalddhoffman Have you ever heard of the Porter ratio ?
https://t.co/LwD4U7D1g3 https://t.co/fq7g5Jai1y
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@AhQFish The Porter Ratio (Quinn Porter, AHQ papers) is R = λ_self / λ_env.
λ_self is the rate of internal structure restoration and propagation.
λ_env is the rate of environmental disruption.
When R ≥ R★ (the ostiary/coherence threshold), prior states remain active, forming
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What is consciousness? Does it arise from physical systems in spacetime, or do spacetime and physical systems arise from it? Can AI be conscious? Should moral constraints govern our interactions with AI? I discuss these questions with Sophia Aryan
https://t.co/iMyKflAC6g
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@donalddhoffman Advaita Vedanta starts here, so does Kashmir Shavism.
Good that the things written and heavily discussed 1500 years ago are surfacing up again.
Observer is the observed. -Jiddu Krishnamurti.
So yeah, duh.
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@donalddhoffman I first met the idea of the world being a dream of the Consciousness in ACIM https://t.co/7riLzav5Y8
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@donalddhoffman The only physical reality is given to us as physical sensations of consciousness. The rest are just theories. Of course, consciousness is fundamental
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“But if dreams teach us anything, it may be that the observer will not be found by science as another object in the world. It may only be recognized through the experience of being aware.”
https://t.co/7GMwFx6dtB
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Against accounts of the same size
12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.
Median views1 084this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %1.89%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.72%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 084 | 924 | 1.17× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.89% | 3.62% | 0.52× |
| Engagement rate | 1.72% | 1.52% | 1.13× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes63.8%1 017 in total
Reposts9.1%145 in total
Replies7.0%111 in total
Quotes0.9%15 in total
Bookmarks19.1%305 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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