Reality Is An Illusion: Exit the Matrix and Design Your Dream Life! | Donald Hoffman (Replay)

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🗓️ 6 July 2024

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It’s pretty normal that you think of reality being the world around us, the tangible things you see and interact with. You probably even include and make space for how your emotions influence perception and tie that into what creates your reality. Donald Hoffman is joining Tom for another mind-bending episode to challenge if we’re actually living in a false reality. Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist that has argued against reality and the limitations of spacetime. Some questions being posed in this episode that will stretch your beyond your limits are: -What is beyond spacetime? -What is the true structure of objective reality? -Is it possible evolution has shaped us in a way that guides our behaviors and therefore how we see objective reality? -His idea of comparing our current reality to that of living in a virtual headset is being taken to the next few levels up and exploring the strategies we use to survive the game of life. Check out Donald Hoffman’s latest book, The Case Against Reality, Why Evolution Hid The Truth From Our Eyes here: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/dp/0393254690 [Original air date: 1-17-23] Follow Donald Hoffman: Website:http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/ Email: ddhoff@uci.edu Twitter: https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donalddhoffman/ SPONSORS: Head to https://netsuite.com/THEORY for Netsuite’s one-of-a-kind flexible financing program for a few more weeks! Get 5 free AG1 Travel Packs and a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D with your first purchase at https://drinkag1.com/impact. Secure your digital life with proactive protection for your assets, identity, family, and tech – Go to https://aura.com/IMPACT to start your free two-week trial. Take control of your gut health by going to https://tryviome.com/impact and use code IMPACT to get 20% off your first 3 months and free shipping. FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here. If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu’s Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. LISTEN AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/impacttheory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm excited to have Donald Hoffman join us to challenge our very sense of reality.
0:04.3	His book, The Case Against Reality, asks if we can even trust our senses and reveals why our perceptions may be entirely questionable.
0:12.8	In this episode, Donald explains how reality is an illusion, how we can recognize the truth of that, and how our senses guide our adaptive behavior.
0:23.0	I hope you guys love listening to this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it.
0:27.0	And if you do, please leave a review on our podcast.
0:30.1	It really is the best way to support us so that we can help get the show out to more people
0:34.0	just like you who are trying to reach their true human potential. I'm Tom
0:38.5	Bill You and welcome to Impact Theory. Donald Hoffman, welcome back to the show. Thanks a lot, Tom.
0:46.2	It's great to be here. Dude, excited to have you back. So I'm obsessed with The Matrix and the idea
0:51.5	that we're living in a false reality. Now, I know you don't believe that
0:55.5	we are actually in a simulation, but do we recognize the truth of reality? Well, our best science
1:02.5	tells us that space time is not fundamental. This is the conclusion of both physics and
1:09.1	evolution by natural selection. So the physicists tell us that
1:12.3	space time is doomed. It's not fundamental. And they're finding new structures beyond space time,
1:18.2	like the amplitude hydrant, that actually make the math easier in space time for the things
1:23.3	they need to do. And then evolution by natural selection also agrees with the physicist that
1:28.2	space time is not fundamental. Let's explain that. So when you say that space time isn't fundamental,
1:35.1	what do we mean exactly? In like the simplest, or we'll get into the geeky like deep stuff in a
1:40.0	second, but for the audience that hasn't heard you talk before. Right. What does that mean?
1:44.7	Well, we tend to think of space and time as the basic level of reality.
1:50.8	Everything that could possibly be is inside space and has some time.
1:57.3	The Big Bang was the start of it all.
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