Trace 1 | Donald Hoffman: Traces of Consciousness, DMT Entities & Rewriting The Laws Of Physics

Spacetime is doomed, and theories of consciousness built inside it are doomed with it. Donald Hoffman, cognitive scientist, author of The Case Against Reality and founder of the Trace Institute, is joined by Evan McGloughlin, founder of Giants Shoulder. In the Trace Institute podcast’s first episode, Don lays out the plan: start with observers, not brains or particles, and rebuild physics from there. The tool is the recursive trace logic, built on century-old Markov chain maths. He explains what a trace is, why every current theory of consciousness fails, how he and Andrew Gallimore plan to test DMT entities, and the nine conjectures Trace must prove to survive. If they can’t prove them, he says, they walk away.