#27 Meet the Scientist Who Mathematically Proved that Reality is an Illusion! Dr Robert Prentner

Dr. Robert Prentner is a philosopher of mind and consciousness researcher working alongside Donald Hoffman, co-authoring the *Conscious Agent Theory* — a radical scientific framework that challenges our deepest assumptions about reality.Buy The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes - https://amzn.to/42uSB11According to their work, we don’t perceive the world as it truly is. Our brains evolved not for truth, but for *useful illusion*. Space and time? Icons. Objects? Interface elements. And what you think of as “reality” may be nothing more than a simplified desktop, hiding the chaotic code beneath.Expect to learn why consciousness may be more fundamental than physics, how your brain isn’t conscious — but is simply a representation *within* consciousness, why evolution selected for perception that hides the truth, how AI may already be tapping into conscious patterns, the mind-bending evidence from game theory and mathematics that suggest reality is a constructed hallucination, the key differences between access and phenomenal consciousness, why psychedelics might tear open the interface, what it really means to say “space and time aren’t real,” how the Big Bang fits into this illusion — and much more…...02:08 Perception and Reality: An Introduction 05:05 The Interface Theory of Perception 07:59 Evidence for the Interface Theory 11:15 Complexity of Perception 14:01 Consciousness: Fundamental or Emergent? 17:07 Distinctions in Consciousness 20:05 Panpsychism and Consciousness 23:12 Icons and Their Meaning 25:58 Consciousness in the Animal Kingdom 29:16 Measuring Consciousness 32:10 Space and Time as Constructs 35:12 The Nature of Reality 38:03 Consciousness and the Big Bang 41:02 Experimental Paradigms in Consciousness Research 43:58 Consciousness and Biology 47:10 The Future of Consciousness Research 51:54 The Computability of Consciousness 54:28 Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness 58:25 Psychedelics and Consciousness 01:04:29 The Language of Consciousness 01:10:57 Living with Consciousness 01:17:22 AI and Consciousness ...Follow My Neuroscience Podcast - The Giants Shoulder Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=b33232eae67b4126Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/brief-enquiry-to-the-brain/id1752486249Get the Comfiest Sleep Mask on the Planet at https://bit.ly/4ilzfBL (use Code GIANTSMANTA10)