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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Partial Knowledge Is Still Knowledge

Hoffman says there's a tension between the illusory and what is real. He uses arguments like from evolution, which are problematic to me because it's like you seem to be saying that evolution really exists. That's how Descartes interpreted Copernican Revolution: Oh, look, we're all seeing the sun rise and move over and set. And it's all an illusion. But the math gets us to the reality.

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