Entangling Conscious Agents, Donald Hoffman

Scientific investigations of consciousness that seek its biological basis typically assume that objects in spacetimesuch as neuronsexist even if unperceived, and have causal powers. I evaluate this assumption, using evolutionary games and genetic algorithms that study perceptual evolution, and find that it is almost surely false. Our perceptions of spacetime and objects are a speciesspecific adaptation, not an insight into objective reality. In consequence, I propose a formal theory of consciousnessth