Donald Hoffman - Conscious Realism

[Dan Sonik]

Hello List,

Here's a neat theory of everything. Here's another paper... same idea, different facet elaborated. I don't think it is correct, but it has some interesting advantages to other competitors in the field:

a) the primary assumption is consciousness
b) it can be given multiple isomorphic treatments in such fields as quantum physics and relativity, therefore "saving the appearances" of the world given the axiom of consciousness.
c) it takes evolution into account

Please let me know your thoughts.

[Philip Thrift]

He does (appropriately, from his approach) go back to Kant:

"Kant (1787) in his Critique of Pure Reason disagreed with Locke’s claim that our conception of time can be bootstrapped from experience, and claimed to the contrary that time is not an aspect of objective reality but is an innate a priori concept that we impose upon our experience."

I think ultimately, when you dig down, Hoffman 

     http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/

takes the cognitivist approach of information-processing agents, vs. the material[pan]psychist approach where experience is intrinsic to matter (which could include temporal experience).

@pphilipthrift