Consciousness and the Illusion of Reality | Dr. Donald Hoffman| Mind Meld 371

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip, SpectreVision Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Cognitive scientist and author of The Case Against Reality, Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld! *Video version here* * Support our sponsor, Qualia Mind! - Try the best brain fuel on earth. Use code THIRDEYEDROPS to save an extra 15% at checkout at neurohacker.com/THIRDEYEDROPS * Don is a professor of cognitive science at UC Irvine who is proposing something radical yet fully backed by scientific rigor — First, you perceive zero percent of reality. You live in an evolutionarily convenient illusion akin to a computer desktop interface. Second, what’s truly real underneath that illusion (and all of our scientific models) is a realm of consciousness populated by what Don calls “conscious agents.” So, despite how the world appears, no matter what happens at the large hadron colder or what we find peering through the James Webb telescope; what all of it is, at bottom, is consciousness expressing itself. Links For Don: Don's book, The Case Against Reality: Fusions of Consciousness Paper Don's TED Talk Support Third Eye Drops: 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🙏 Sub on Youtube 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 🌀 Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now administering third eye drops. We experience ourselves as if we are little objects inside space time, but our best science tells us that that interpretation of our experience is wrong and we need some deeper interpretations.
0:31.5	My own take, just reverse it. Space time is a tiny
0:34.9	headset that we use. We're the consciousness that uses space time as a
0:39.1	headset. So it's the thing that's little. We're the thing that's big and we thought that space time is this
0:45.4	gargantuan, ancient, huge fundamental reality and we're tiny little objects inside of it.
0:50.8	This revolution is a little bit deeper than going from flat earth to
0:54.2	round earth. This is saying, no, no, this is a big revolution. You're not a tiny object in
0:58.8	space time. Space time is a tiny data structure that you use and you have infinite capacities far beyond that.
1:05.8	Hey my friends, I hope your neurons are feeling pliable, swift, primed for contortions, you never thought possible because that is what Dr. Donald
1:18.5	Hoffman is about to ask of them, trust me. But on that note, when I am confronted with such a torrent of genius
1:30.1	intellect like I was in this episode with Dr. Donald Hoffman.
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