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#89: Consciousness, Perception & Reality - Donald Hoffman, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Do We Have Free Will?

A lot of these spiritual traditions aren't trying to figure out the truth. The're secterological. So like there, inother words, they're concerned with the liberation of the mind. Like yoga and buddhism, for example. Buddhism isn't saying how the world works, necessarily, its saying how your mind works. And therefore, you know, if you follow this protocol, you'll have less suffering. You know. It was never a description of reality. But that's just to sayat, you knowad there's a place for science, because spirituality certainly is not science. That actually reminds me of a point i wanted to make really briefly, based on what you

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