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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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Aren't They Like Very Consistent?

Isn't our dream world very consistent to the point of being mapped directly one to one to the actual physical world as opposed to us being completely tricked? This is like where you have like Donald Trump. It's not a trick. It's an attempt to deal with the dynamics of too many parts to count at the level at which we're entangled with the best model that you can find. So we can act in that dream world. And our actions have impact in the real world, in the physical world, to which we don't have access. Yes. You would accept, yes, there is a certain abstraction that happens here. But it's basically like accepting the fact that the software that

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