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245 - Prof. Donald Hoffman - Proving Ancient Wisdom Through Mathematics

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Relationship Between Reality and Evolution?

Sot. Anto: There seems be two basic threads you could say that is one is to argue against the relationship between our experience of the world and something which we could call objective reality, or fundamental reality. And then there's another thread, which is to rebuild a vision of the world, which would be something like conscious realism. So they are two separate steps, and one might buy the first step and not the second, or vice versa. They are, in some sense independent of propositions. We have no competitor right now for evolution by natural selection. That's why i studied it. I thoroughly expect that in a hundred years we'll have a better framework.

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