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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Face That I See Is Just a Symbol That I Create
In some sense, the face that I see is just a symbol that I create. As soon as I look away, I delete that symbol, but I don't delete you. Your consciousness is genuinely affecting mine, and mine is genuinely affecting yours through these icons, which I create on the fly. So when I look at a cat, I'm creating something that I still call living, and I still think is conscious. When I look at an ant, I create something that Istill would call living, but maybe not conscious. And by the time we get down to a proton, the portal is not clear at all. The portal is less clear for a cat, even less clear
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