Why Reality, Space & Time Is An Illusion! - Evidence We're Living In A Simulation | Donald Hoffman

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

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Summary

Donald Hoffman, Cognitive Psychologist and Science Author, has proposed a theory of consciousness that challenges your everyday assumptions about what reality is. His argument is that our perceptions of cause and effect and what we experience in the physical world isn’t as real as you’d like to think.

The metaphor of the virtual headset he uses in these conversations with Tom explains why our experiences are limited and there are things like freewill that we never truly experience. If that’s not heavy enough for you, Hoffman bring mathematical equations into the picture to explain that all consciousness is mathematically structured.

This episode is a complete crash course into the world of Donald Hoffman and the illusion of space, time and reality. Some areas you’ll hear explored in this episode include:

Is Cause and effect real?
The God hypothesis and consciousness
Why your reality isn’t real
The Truth behind consciousness
How evolution hides the matrix (and what’s the red pill)
Testing reality & spacetime
Can you actually escape the matrix?

Do you think it’s possible life is a simulation and we’re in some version of a virtual reality headset?

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0:00.0	Let me just ask one question. Is cause and effect real? Outside of the headset. I think inside
0:06.3	the headset, no. So we have a useful fiction. Inside the headset, you don't think there's cause
0:11.0	an effect? Right. Well, we have the appearance of cause and effect. Right. So if I hit the
0:15.8	the cue ball and hits the eight ball into the corner pocket, it looks like the cue ball caused the eight ball to crane into the corner pocket. Yes. And that all works, but it's a fiction of causality. In the old video game of Pong, you have these little paddles and this ball and you hit and it looks like the paddle is causing the ball. And the fiction of causality is good enough that you can play a game. You can actually figure out how to put maybe a little spin on it and so forth. Or in, you know, more advanced games like, you know, virtual reality or games or, you know, like Grand Theft Auto. You have a nice fiction of causality. I turn the wheel to the left. My car goes to the left. Turn the wheel to the right. But it's all a fiction. The wheel has no causal powers. the gas pedal has no causal powers, but it's a useful fiction.
0:54.3	Evolution. but it's all a fiction. The wheel has no causal powers. The gas pedal has no causal powers, but it's a useful fiction.
0:57.9	Evolution gave us a useful fiction.
0:59.5	I don't know that that's true.
1:01.1	So think about a system was created.
1:05.0	Let's take the analogy of Grand Theft Auto.
1:07.9	So a system is created such that it awaits input from your control pad,
1:15.5	whatever that control pad may be.
1:17.4	Now, admittedly, my control pad, I press it.
1:21.6	An electrical signal is sent to something that turns on or off or opens or closes
1:27.0	or whatever,
1:27.5	and then a whole cascade of things happens.
1:30.4	But it is, I mean, you could even trace back the causality to,
1:34.1	I ate something that gave me the ability to create ATP,
1:37.5	which gave me the ability to generate electricity,
1:40.2	which gave me the ability to fire a muscle,
1:42.1	which gave me the ability to press a button,
1:43.9	which triggered this electrical chain reaction that caused something to happen on the screen.
1:48.3	But there is a chain of causality in the headset.
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