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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

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Infinitely Small or the Infinitely Big?

When I say it's probability zero, it doesn't mean it can't happen. In fact, it could happen infinitely often. Infinitely small or the infinitely big. And so the tools and mathematics, you could sort of apply the same kind of criticism that it is a very convenient interface into our reality. That's a big debate in mathematics. The intuitionists versus the ones who take, for example, the real numbers as real.

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