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Erik Hoel is Research Assistant Professor at the Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, and the author of The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science (2023). Alongside his research on consciousness, emergence, and the mathematical foundations of complex systems, he is the author of the novel The Revelations (2021) and writes the Substack newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective, covering consciousness, AI, and culture.

Erik Hoel is Research Assistant Professor at the Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, and the author of The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science (2023). Alongside his research on consciousness, emergence, and the mathematical foundations of complex systems, he is the author of the novel The Revelations (2021) and writes the Substack newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective, covering consciousness, AI, and culture.

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Erik Hoel

Consciousness, Gödel, and the incompleteness of science
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Erik Hoel

No current theory of consciousness is scientific

mars could hold the secrets to the origins of life
Erik Hoel

Mars could hold the secrets to the origins of life

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