Now administering third-eyed drops.

Greetings water deppers. Michael Philip here honored as always to have you in the mind meld, but this one in

Particular because I will just cut to the nucleus

What if I told you that reality

maybe even more odd than you've yet conceived of. I'm talking

weirder than assimilation, weirder than some kind of matrix-like

ontology

That is unless you've heard of our guest on this one Dr. Donald Hoffman if you have you have some

Notion of where this is going, but Dr. Donald Hoffman first of all

Really is a unique kind of genius not only in terms of intellectual credentials

Which he's got in spades in the form of a PhD from MIT and computational psychology

He's professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California Irvine who has published heaps of

academic papers on perception and consciousness, so he is a big big brained being to be sure

But he's also the author of the mind-bending

Masterpiece the book the case against reality why evolution hid the truth from our eyes and his Ted talk

Which I highly recommend as a primer for this conversation has millions of views

So he's definitely struck a chord

But despite all of that

Don remains really incredibly humble and is quick to diminish his own accomplishments and genius

Which if you ask me is also the hallmark of a great genius?

I guess I'm a bit of a fanboy, but before we go any further. I do have to put

Some kind of brain melter alert on this one my friends because for one it does get somewhat

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