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Top Psychologist, Donald Hoffman: Seeing True Reality Would Kill Us! I Can Prove It To You!
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Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293
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This scientist says, 'Nothing you see is real.' He explains that everything we experience—space, time, the sun, the moon, and physical objects—are just part of a mental 'visualization tool' we use to interact with the world."
Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist and professor at the University of California proposes... See more
Evolution by natural selection shapes sensory systems to be user interfaces that hide objective reality and guide adaptive actions. Seeing the truth won't make you more fit. It will make you extinct. @lexfridman
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Donald Hoffmanx.com"Nothing in biology makes sense without teleology" by Michael Levin
youtube.comWhat is going on here? Shafir and Tversky argued that when we make choices, we are not ‘expressing’ a pre-existing preference at all; indeed, they would argue that there are no such preferences. What we are doing instead is improvising – making up our preferences as we go along.
Nick Chater • Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain
Animals, like children, don’t have a hard time making a decision. They act out of innate instinct, not learned behavior. This primitive force packs an ancient wisdom that science has yet to catch up with.