#102 Donald Hoffman | How Our Perception Creates Reality
And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen
Cory Allen
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🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Cognitive Scientist and TED talker Donald Hoffman joins me on The Astral Hustle. We discuss how perception creates reality, evolutionary psychology, and his search for observable objectivity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my dear astro lights. Welcome to the astro hustle. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, what's going on everybody? |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the astro hustle. I'm Cori Allen. |
| 0:10.0 | And as always, it's an actual pleasure to be speaking with you you and I hope that you are having a wonderful day or to be consistent with the podcast today |
| 0:18.1 | I hope you are having a wonderful interpretation of what you understand to be your day. Now we have had some deep |
| 0:25.6 | dives on the astro hustle. I you know some speculative and in some you know more |
| 0:31.8 | rooted in science I might say that today's is the deepest dive that we've had perhaps. |
| 0:37.6 | Definitely one of my favorite astro hustles or just podcasts I've been a part of in general. |
| 0:42.4 | The guest is Donald Hoffman. He is a |
| 0:45.8 | cognitive scientist and his study is based on perception and how we understand our |
| 0:50.3 | reality. He has a wonderful TED Talk. I can't encourage you enough to go check it out. |
| 0:54.8 | called Do We See Reality as it is? It's a wonderful talk definitely worth your time |
| 0:59.2 | checking that out. So we go deep into our perception of the objective world, the world outside of our |
| 1:04.9 | skin, how what we perceive creates our reality, what are thoughts, we get into evolutionary psychology, how accepting that you are making a perception |
| 1:15.9 | challenges your ego, all of these different fascinating topics. |
| 1:19.4 | This one is jam-packed full of really amazing thoughts and ideas thanks to Donald Hoffman and |
| 1:26.1 | his insights and wisdom and knowledge on all of these things is exquisite and he |
| 1:32.0 | holds a balance and wonder in his thinking that is really |
| 1:35.6 | inspiring. So I know you all are going to enjoy this. I suggest strapping your |
| 1:40.2 | headphones onto your head so that whenever your brain melts your headphones don't slide off. So I hope you all enjoy this. I know you |
| 1:48.1 | will. Also if you have just a few minutes please manifest five stars create them in your reality on with the theme of today's |
| 1:55.6 | podcast create subjective symbols of stars within your reality gather those up take them over to the iTunes As for Hustle page give us a little five star rating don't even have to review it just click five stars hit submit and that helps us get more awesome guests like Donald Hoffman and other guests that you want to hear in the future, and it makes me happy. |
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