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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 105 | Piercing the Veil of Reality with Dr. Donald Hoffman

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip

Spirituality, Development, Philosophy, Psychedelic, Comedy, Psychology, Mckenna, Future, Plato, Rogan, Science, Society & Culture, Watts, Trussell, Mind, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to decode the koan of reality!

Don Hoffman is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. His chief areas of inquiry include perception, the illusory nature of reality, free will and the development of a scientific model for consciousness.

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Now administering third eye drops. What's the scenario? Let's plop our miracles down on the table. Do we, as most scientists would contend, live in a world of stuff, a

1:17.8

universe of molecular Legos that give rise to everything? Did we over the course of billions of years manage to somehow

1:25.3

siphon the fire of consciousness from the fabric of an uncaring universe despite probabilities

1:30.7

that would make a razor thin pin tip look like the broad side of a barn?

1:40.0

Are we just the product of bottom-up scratching, clawing, and toiling, and mutating that goes

1:47.6

along with the survival of the fittest paradigm?

1:51.4

Do we somehow manufacture our awareness through neuron density,

1:55.0

summoning the genie of our qualia from the quantum lamp of our brain?

2:00.0

Perhaps we do.

2:01.0

Many very smart people think so. Or is it the other way around, as

2:09.4

mystics would contend, a universe where consciousness comes first and all else flowed forth from it,

2:16.3

like a fractal holistic interconnected network of sentience, perhaps akin to the Tao, the Brahmin, the one thing, as hermetic philosophy calls it.

2:29.5

Or perhaps it's not a zero-sum game.

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