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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
Evolution of a Natural Selection Is a Theorem
The world we see with our eyes is not real. It's not even an abstraction of objective reality, he says. The evolutionary process that took us from the original life on earth to the humans that we are today does not maximize for truth, as you say, fitness beats truth. So in that sense, what we're seeing is what we need to see to stay alive long enough to reproduce.
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