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Are you just a data pattern? Donald Hoffman challenges reality.

Oska Phoenix · May 30, 2026

Donald Hoffman walks us through a disorienting possibility: that consciousness itself might be reducible to data patterns and information sequences rather than something anchored in physical reality. If neuroscience is really just mapping statistical relationships instead of objective structures, what does that mean for your sense of self—and could the reality you experience be fundamentally algorithmic in nature?

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