Hoffman's published roadmap, in The Case Against Reality (2019) and the conscious-agent network papers, targets deriving spacetime and quantum probabilities from agent dynamics, with partial results mapping agent structures onto known mathematical objects in physics. It parallels independent work showing spacetime geometry emerging from deeper structures, notably Arkani-Hamed and Trnka's amplituhedron (2013), where locality and unitarity, the pillars of spacetime physics, emerge as consequences rather than axioms.
The folk version: science is about to announce that the universe is a mind, any decade now. The announcement has been imminent since Berkeley, 1710.
The structural claim worth filing: physics has already been quietly deriving spacetime from elsewhere, from entanglement, from amplitudes, from information, without any consciousness required. Hoffman's bet is that the missing elsewhere is mind. The race is real; both lanes are unfinished.
If spacetime can be derived from the structure of observation, was it ever there before anyone looked?