Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293" video.

Any theory that so much as mentions the word miracle as an explanation is religion and not science. I loved the discussion but this guy is describing simplicity with complexity without identifying or elucidating on anything tangible. He keeps saying what his theory will eventually unearth, but never describes the path to reason or experiment that gets there. Just that he's hoping to explain miracles somehow with a theory he can't articulate fully lol it's kind of weird he considers his work science and not philosophy (philosophy being another form of science, albeit through abstraction rather than practical matters - pun intended). I think he does more to confuse his audience than enlighten or educate because of his choislce of language and references. Markov kernels for eg doesn't describe the algorithm or process at all. That's like saying "I do complicated math which will explain things because I'm using graph paper instead of ruled sheets"... It's just a process of systematic lambdas over any given domain. It doesn't mean anything by itself but he uses it several times as a description of how he'll arrive at an experiment'result or a proof of some sort but it literally doesn't make sense in the context he uses it. I don't think he even knows what he's talking about when it comes down to the math.
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