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Donald Hoffman: Reality Is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

by manjana on 6/30/22, 12:27 PM with 3 comments

• by mikewarot on 6/30/22, 11:44 PM

  Reality is not as we perceive it at the quantum level, and there may be an even more fundamental understanding of physics soon... that I'll agree with.

  The assertion that consciousness is the basis of reality is an interesting rabbit hole, but not, in my opinion, a productive theory of physics.

• by Maursault on 6/30/22, 4:14 PM

  Not sure why this video needs to be 3 and a quarter hours, because it is mostly repetition and rehashing the same perspective that is summed up in a few minutes, which is basically the title, and that is how shallow this is.

  The perspective is neither interesting nor rigorous, and I saw no attempt to define first principles, but just throwing around terms like "truth" and "objective reality" without any attempt to define these, when long before the field of neurology existed philosophers already determined there can be no truth and that objective reality does not exist.

  Shocking... not. Sedative, yes.