Ep 605 – 2020 Vision: What is Real – Five Naked Mormon Truths to Choke On

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

What is real? What is true? And who has the advantage when it comes to survival of the fittest: those who see it like it really is, or those who don’t?
Today Glenn does some Mormon-focused riffing on Donald Hoffman’s 2015 Ted Talk “Do we See Reality as it is?”

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0:00.0	The Truth and the Lie.
0:02.0	And the Lie.
0:03.0	What does this mean for the mystery of consciousness?
0:06.0	Once upon a time,
0:08.0	Truth met the Lie.
0:10.0	Well, it opens up new possibilities.
0:13.0	And the lie said to the truth,
0:15.0	it's a marvelous day today.
0:17.0	And the truth looked up to the sky and side,
0:20.0	for the day really was beautiful.
0:21.0	Perhaps reality is some vast machine.
0:25.8	They spent a lot of time together, ultimately arriving right next to a well.
0:30.6	And the line looked at truth and said, the water is very nice.
0:34.0	Let's take a bath together.
0:36.0	Perhaps reality is some vast interacting network of conscious agents.
0:41.0	The truth, once again suspicious, tested the water, but discovered that indeed it was very nice.
0:48.0	Actually this isn't as crazy an idea as it seems. So truth started to undress and started to bathe.
0:54.0	Suddenly, the lie came out of the water, put on the clothes of truth, and ran away.
0:59.0	The furious truth came out of the well and ran everywhere to find the lie to get her clothes back.
1:06.4	Everyone else in the world seeing truth naked turned its gaze away with contempt and rage.
1:11.8	The poor truth returned to the well and disappeared forever,
1:16.0	hiding therein its shame.
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