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245 - Prof. Donald Hoffman - Proving Ancient Wisdom Through Mathematics

The Symbolic World

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Is the Headset Just a Metaphor?

In many spiritual traditions, there is a sense in which there is a double movement you could take. These perceptions that i have, they are not ultimate reality. They are something like an illusion,. But then that even that illusion, let's say, has to originate from something. It none the less, is a projection of consciousness and therefore it also does offer us reality at the level at which we are. I'm hoping eventually to have a energy between science and spirituality where both sides are going to be shocked. There are things that both are going to think that they knew were true, and will find out as we go along that those were, at best poor proximations to some better

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