Hoffman — Interface Theory / Conscious Realism (External)

Why it matters (for Theophysics)

  • Adds a rigorous anti-naive-realism argument: perception tracks fitness, not truth.
  • Provides a formal “conscious agent” object that could map to your agent/operator layer.

External primitives to extract (quarantined)

  • Definition: Conscious Agent as a 6-tuple (experiences/actions + Markov kernels)
  • Claim: Fitness-Beats-Truth theorem (FBT)
  • Claim: spacetime-as-interface (“desktop metaphor”) as an interpretation

Integration candidates (later)

  • Likely canonical home: 02_Definitions/ for “Conscious Agent” + 03_Lemmas/ or 04_Causal_Chains/ for the evolutionary argument.

Conflicts / flags

  • Epistemic self-defeat objection (Plantinga-style) should be captured as an OBJECTION note if adopted.