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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is It Like Behind Me?
If you just close your eyes and look at your experience in front of you, what you experience is just like a modeled dark gray. But now I ask you, instead of having your attention forward, put your attention backward, what is it like behind you with your eyes closed? And there it's like nothing. It's real. So what is going on here? What am I experiencing back there? Right. Well, it's the absence of, it's not even like darkness or something. It's not even darkness. There's no, there's no qualia to it. Yet there is a sense of being. That's the interesting thing. There’s a sense of
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