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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Cognition Illusory?
Cognition is capable of illusion, that's a true statement. But then what happens to the premise for his argument leading to the conclusion that cognition is illusory? I think he makes a very specific argument about evolution as an explanation of why the world is of our cognition operating in the illusory world. Why do we have to be connected to like physics and planets and all that kind of stuff? Okay. And now let's just consider it. Now, when we put it that way, it's not an epistemic question anymore. It's an existential question. There's two possibilities. Either the illusion is one that I cannot discover sort of, you know, the matrix
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