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0:00 Welcome.
0:49 Do you ever get recognized when going outside?
2:17 Do you believe that evaluating natural selection mechanisms on the basis of payoff functions accurately represents how organisms evolve?
13:28 Can you please tell us more about how conscious realism can be tested?
17:19 How does Karl Friston’s active inference fit in with your theory?
20:30 Have you considered the idea that conscious agents are local or non-local distortions of higher-dimensional spacetime with unique frequencies?
26:42 What is the role in your theory of valence, or hedonic tone?
34:36 What are your thoughts on artificial intelligence/consciousness?
45:26 How does the concept of God fit into your theory?
50:54 Evolution has given us not veridical perceptions, meaning time is not veridical. But evolution requires sequentiality, doesn’t that mean that time is veridical?
57:03 How do you think an average person can grasp something outside of time, intuitively?
1:04:34 What underlying reality do celestial object represent, like stars, quasars, and black holes?
1:07:51 What would happen if one never stopped meditating, would one not fully realise one’s enlightenment as Ramana Manarshi? (Would it give you super powers?)
1:21:52 How would you regard NDEs under your model?
1:30:49 Would it be adequate to say that the ground reality changes, evolves or grows?
1:39:19 Why do synchronicities happen in the lives of people, does the interface theory of perceptions or conscious agents have an explanation for that?
1:42:53 What is your take on Thomas Campbell’s theory of everything?
1:48:14 Thank you and good day.