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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

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Is Space Time Doomed?

Physicists are saying that space time is doomed, and I can say exactly why they think it's doomed. They're finding new ways of computing these scattering amplitudes that turn literally billions of terms into one term. When you do it in space and time, because it's the wrong framework, it's just a user interface from that's now from the evolutionary point of view,. It's not a deep insight into the nature of reality. So what flashlight are we going to use to look into the dark beyond space time? Because Einstein's theory can't tell us what's beyond them. All they can do is tell us that when you put us together, space time doesn't even make

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