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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
Does Literary Fiction Still Help Us in Building Intuitions?
The reason we read literary fiction is it helps us build intuitions in an understanding. Does this interface that we get, this fictional interface help us build intuition about deeper truths of how this whole mess works? Well, I think that each theory that we propose will give its own answer to that question. So there's not going to be a general answer. What we'll have to do is pause it these new deeper theories and then try to answer your question within the framework of those deeper theories.
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