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#212 Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality; Perception, Consciousness, And Reality

The Dissenter

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The Desktop Interface Is Not There to Show You the Truth

From an evolutionary point of view there's no reason to simulate reality that's irrelevant. Evolution has shaped us with a user interface and that's very different from a simulation it's a simulation of reality would in some sense be trying to tell you the parts of reality that you need to know. If you had to toggle voltages to write a book you'd never get published it would never happen. The point of a desktop interface is not to show you the truth it's explicitly to hide the truth, he says.

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