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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's the Conscious Realism?
Life is ephemeral and spiritual traditions have said, anything that you do here is going to disappear. But it's even more ephemeral than perhaps we've thought. I see this bottle because I create it right now. As soon as I look away, that data structure has been garbage collected. So all the things that we invest ourselves in, we fight over, we kill each other over, we have wars over. These are all, it's just like people in a virtual reality simulation. That car, I have to keep recreating it every time I look at it. It's that ephemeral. Here's how it maps onto space - which I should really sketch briefly
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