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#212 Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality; Perception, Consciousness, And Reality

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Finding Fitness Payoffs Now and Reporting Fitness Pay Offs

The point of the perceptions is to keep you alive long enough to reproduce so it's a what what evolutionary theorists call finding fitness payoffs now and reporting fitness payoffs. We're doing in life is playing as hard as we can to grab what they call fitness payoffs these are in some sense fitness points that will help you to stay alive short enough to reproduce. If you don't go to the next level but your your genes do, right? So I think it's very helpful to think about evolution and evolution by natural selection  to understand where this all comes from.

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