Hey this is Leo for actualized.org and in this episode I'm going to rant against

naive realism and materialism because reality is not physical.

Any sufficient. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

A quote by Arthur C. Clark.

I was going to speak on another topic today, but I felt in a ranting mood.

I was a little pissy, and so I felt like this would be the perfect time for a nice old-fashioned rant.

So here we go.

Let's define first though what naive realism is and what materialism is and what materialism is and what physicalism is these are all synonyms for the same basic

worldview or the same basic paradigm and what I want to help you do here is I want to really

get you to re-evaluate some very core fundamental metaphysical assumptions that you make about reality because this can

set your mind free to go and do some much deeper work and get some amazing

results from that. So what is naive realism? It's basically the everyday normal conception that human beings have of reality.

And this we might say is just something that is a given to us almost like our fundamental basic operating system as a human

organism. We have this operating system that basically tells us that, hey, we're alive in a three-dimensional space that's how our sensory

perceptions render reality to us right it's like a three-dimensional space there's

objects in it so it's sort of an objective world there There's objects with distinct boundaries. We can move them around.

Stuff happens throughout linear time and space, you know, just kind of progresses linearly.

We can't travel backwards in time, and this, we have a very hard time distinguishing

this from how reality actually is. if we buy into naive realism.

The model this creates for us

is basically of the universe as this giant

empty three-dimensional box with width, depth, and height, and there's like a bunch of

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