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Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality

The TED Interview

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The Glass of Water Is Not Just Semthing You See, but Something You Taste

I'm not a solopsis. So solopsists are people who claim that there's nothing out there except my experiences. I'm the only thing that exists me in my experiences. There is an objective reality out there, and its independent of whether i observe it and whether you observe it. But that reality is not spatial temporal. Is not physical objects. It's something very much deeper. And it's when we interact with that deeper reality that evolutionis aped us to create this user interface that's much, much simpler. This is really a three dimensional world with all these cups and plants, and so it's really, really complicated. But is much, much simplified compared to the

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