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On Today's Episode:
Donald Hoffman, Cognitive Psychologist and Science Author, has proposed a theory of consciousness that challenges your everyday assumptions about what reality is. His argument is that our perceptions of cause and effect and what we experience in the physical world isn't as real as you'd like to think.
The metaphor of the virtual headset he uses in these conversations with Tom explains why our experiences are limited and there are things like freewill that we never truly experience. If that's not heavy enough for you, Hoffman bring mathematical equations into the picture to explain that all consciousness is mathematically structured.
This episode is a complete crash course into the world of Donald Hoffman and the illusion of space, time and reality. Some areas you'll hear explored in this episode include:
Is Cause and effect real?
The God hypothesis and consciousness
Why your reality isn't real
The Truth behind consciousness
How evolution hides the matrix (and what's the red pill)
Testing reality & spacetime
Can you actually escape the matrix?
Do you think it's possible life is a simulation and we're in some version of a virtual reality headset?
QUOTES:
'Everything that I believe about me is very different than I believed when I was five, and so over the years and decades of my life, I've put together this story of myself, [...] a self is a story that we weave, it's a narrative that we give.'
'That's something about a really good scientific theory, once you write it down you become a student of your theory.'
'The equations become smarter than the genius who wrote them down.'
'You can't directly experience your own free choices. You can experience that you chose, but you can never actually experience yourself choosing.'
'Mathematics is like the bones of the living conscious experience, they can't be divorced from each other. There's more to experience than just math, but there's not less than math.'
'At the foundation of every scientific theory there's this moment of humility, explanation stops here.'
'We're creating reality as we render it.'
'When we have babies, in a way that we don't understand, we're opening new portals into the realm of consciousness.'
'If I'm going to go beyond the interface then I've got to let go of the interface entirely. Any concept, any thought that I have is by definition still in the language of the interface that I've got.'
'There are no security blankets when you let go of all thoughts.'
Follow Donald Hoffman:
Website:http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donalddhoffman/
WARNING: I will never ask for your contact info in the comments section, that is someone impersonating me!
@CathyHill-st7jh Says:
When I p;ay a video game and I’m get hit by a car, I’m dead in the game. Now I go outside , go in the road and let a car hit me. Am I dead?
@vickib8822 Says:
Bohr "don't tell god what to do" lol
@soundamazingaudio5171 Says:
If the life after is likened to an acid trip, then holy hell, that sucks
@gritthelegit2512 Says:
500 commercials later...
@richardsnyder6413 Says:
Remarkable 👌❤
@dangerpainter Says:
🤯🤯🤯🫡Great interview!
@anyalarson85 Says:
Brillant. TY so much. What happens inside the brain of a person who is blind by birth?
@MohammedKandour Says:
My god I couldn't finish the first 3 minutes ... Imagining a GTA world and causality in it FROM NPC POINT OF VIEW. it's an illusion. That's what he means.. from an NPC point of view from that world point of view there's a causality .. THEY CAN'T SEE the circuit of the headset or whatever .. The real world controls can cause a car to appear out if thin air by entering a cheat code... From NPC view that breaks causality law.. It's a miracle. Because the causality in NPC world is an illusion.. It is not directly bounded to the real world..because the real world has different laws that are different than the GTA world...so our world is an X aka the unknown .. Using same analog the unknown behind our world can have a different laws where causality doesn't exist and it only exist in our word ..
@PTH744 Says:
“As sincere as this discussion may be the gentleman is literally lost in his own labyrinth. “
@shubhamdhuri4620 Says:
Tat tvam asi❤
@tom-lg6ju Says:
It would seem that according to this theory, the reason you see the same thing as everyone else when looking at an object would be do to the code is the same for everyone in the game
@ZiplineShazam Says:
If We are the Universe. . . why would the Universe give itself Tooth Decay ?
@mrrecluse7002 Says:
Goosebumps all over the place. Consciousness is the fundamental reality. SpaceTime is BS.
@pattyberryman3037 Says:
The Beautiful Beings of Gaia would like to thank Tom Bilyeu for your service. We are forever grateful.
@claudenobles779 Says:
9:10 the intellect cannot grasp "it" ... the idea of grasping "it" to the naive unwittingly creates a duality pushing away ... solution ... quiet your mind ... of itself is ... thou art that
@NavaidSyed Says:
Emotions and feelings can be experienced only with headset. Samadhi is the state of nothingness and have nothing except except calm. Psychedelics do dissolve the sense of self.
@NavaidSyed Says:
Without headset and no one observing we will be energy. If observed we will collapse back into the headset.
@NavaidSyed Says:
Reasoning and logic are not the same. But, reasoning must be based on logic.
@NavaidSyed Says:
Donald, why are you still putting evolution in this theory? It is okay to say that Math has not confirmed evolution.
@NavaidSyed Says:
How do you know that you opened a new portal to the consciousness? It might be just a function of the software.
@NavaidSyed Says:
I do not know about God, but Math definitely shows a cause. More people are killed by the religion of Atheism than any other religion. Mathematically, we do not even get the evolution, as we are taught.
@Clare-9ZNIN Says:
Tom, please shut up and allow your guests to speak!!!!
@Syrian.Coffee Says:
You shouldn’t host such smart people if ull keep inserting your own ideas
@Syrian.Coffee Says:
He interrupts so much it’s hard to understand the ideas
@carlosegonzalez678 Says:
Dinosaurs got hit by reality without thinking or observing it. Maybe aliens where observing and did it.
@brettwilliams8971 Says:
I know now y'all are talking about me know tell me how to make it available to the world
@AmritBath-ck5kt Says:
You don’t want the truth, You want to be right, probably why you still seeking answers consciousness is your contribution to reality, what you perceive as real becomes real. Hi Tom, You have great insights and perspectives, I could talk to for hours, %🎡🌷🪽🌎🌈🌲🐝🌹🦉🧬💫🪞✨🦋⚡🌸💭🎡🎡
@LaughingStage5 Says:
Einstein was a fraud, fully financed by the Warburgh banking clan, who mudered the editor of the journal where Einstein’s articles were published, all containing gross miscalculations and errors. The banksters and petroleum kings needed to do away with the discovery of ether, the application of which was harnessed by Tesla to generate free energy from “thin air” so to say. They needed the Einstein’s bogus theory to ban ether. According to the Einstein’s bogus. theory, waves propagate at vast speeds through “empty space”/ vacuum. REALITY: everything is filled with “ether”, the element with an atomic mass of 0, which fills everything (making up the “dark mass” and the “dark matter” and “dark energy” of the universe). Because of the Einstein’s fraudulent theory, physics has become an exercise in absurdity and lies. There is also NO wave/ corpuscular dualism of matter — it’s just that every particle also has a finite e.m. field around it.
@georgenelson8917 Says:
I am a 76 yr old retired Archaeogist with 54 yrs field experience: in ARCHAEOLOGY and Paleontology and HISTORICAL GEOLOGY . There is cause and effect and the long buried unintended artifacts and bones and features , layers of sediment are 3 D real objects we uncover. I don’t see how all these remains of thousands or millions of year old (dated by radio carbon ‘ old tree rings and chemical analysis) are just a illusion. Seems a lot of faking by somebody or something to put an unrealistic amount of time , effort and energy to pull off for what purpose?
@ronniehopper8554 Says:
The truth is beyond thought. You can not reach it by thinking. He was on the right track with silent thoughtless awareness.
@Cl4rendon Says:
Don is on fire here - I`ve binged listened to him recently and he had some health issues , but here he`s quite x plosive.
@ViciousPanda9000 Says:
This conversation resonated with me on so many fundamental levels. Refreshing to hear someone speak about consciousness, existence, and what "God" means in terms similar to what I've believed for so long.
@codinginflow Says:
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't the fact that we can be completely unconscious (deep sleep, anesthesia) a sign that consciousness is not universal? Why would death be different than an endless, unconscious deep sleep?
@teddywahyudhana456 Says:
The headset is pretty much real as well as outside the headset.
@prettysure3085 Says:
Must have d record of the longest time an interviewer talking straight without being interrupted. U must love to hear your own voice. Just when i thought neil degrasse tyson has that record. U the man!
@Skygoers Says:
@Skygoers
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In Buddhism, space/time is a construct of the consciousness. The subject-object dualistic structure is a construct of the consciousness. This construction or imposition is not intentional but a product of our evolution which is the habitual tendencies accumulated over billions of life tomes. Meditation can free us from these limitations imposed by karmic habits retained in consciousness. But until then we have to to follow moral ethics based on our habitual perception of time, space, self and others. Why? Until you are totally free, only good ethics based on compassion saves us within the real of conditioned existence.
@Suramiri Says:
That wil say we the headset is a computer that prosess the realty in group if all the headset is working on solving the one problem. It will solve it faster because it's hase more prosesser power. That is we one person Comes upp with a hypothesis others may have already have a plan to solve it. If humanities is one in peace and one language one culture we will have already done miraculous advanced in every state of knowledge
@imdra3391 Says:
My question is , lets say that the brain is the physical computer that receive/accommodates consciousness experience , as its all physical and in such deterministic ,can we also create such receiver synthetically such as a silicon robot brain in which a consciousness can reside or be received / manifested?
@cortex301 Says:
"@alchemicalvisionstudios3969
8 months ago
Watching this in the beginning was activating my anxiety and my ulcers. I was screaming inside “shut up and let your guest finish his point!”. When you finally listened we got past the back and forth garbage and heard some really great stuff. I’d say I learned from this. Listen more, talk less. Wait for the other person to finish, interruption is rude and inhibits learning and trade. It all comes from “let me show you how much I already know”. Yet you forgot to remain quiet long enough to learn that maybe you don’t know as much as you thought. Works for all sides involved"
We know you are smart, no need. My children used to do this....expecting "the praise"
@JGjdg74 Says:
Tom interrupts Donald far too often. Shut up Tom!!!
@seriouslyyoujest1771 Says:
NDE, or near death experiences, has taken the fear out of fear out of death. Although, nothing didn’t make me afraid. And seemingly OxyContin will take away the discomfort of dying. The last of our parents, my father died in the beginning of December. Oddly at his death I felt great thanks I had this wonderful man around for so long. What a magnificent life. A bit like Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn, the life of Riley.
@sanamsitaram7940 Says:
My favourite content ever is literally any conversation Tom has with Don. The right questions asked in the right ways (for us average people who arent scientists) to one of the greatest minds of our time. Yes please.
@melvilbrown8264 Says:
Possibly the nothingness is the portal. Stop making it a barrier untill it gives answers to the new headset
@nerp.s Says:
Genius is actually arguing with Donald Hoffman. Wow.
@stussysinglet Says:
what about a dog, a fish or a snail.. are they also wearing head sets?
@MrEmotional33 Says:
So when i look at the pixelated moon (on a photo or video) on the computer screen (instead of rendering the "real" moon), it is like a "secondary" virtual world which is embedded in the "primary" virtual world (or simulation), since it does not reflect the direct "reality" of the simulated space-time, but visualizes a computerized representation of the simulated space-time (not the space-time/simulation itself), which is still virtual (since there are no objectifiable computers) and still rendered (perceived) through our virtual brain inside the simulated space-time..that is crazy stuff ...
@dwoopie Says:
I bet 1 billion bugs... that they are still alive under the ground when donald hoffman doesn't see them...
@SwamiSridattadevSatchitananda Says:
Consciousness appears as content to experience itself, content disappears to realize that it is consciousness itself aka GOD.
I am that
Generator
Organizer
Destroyer of content
Life
Is
For
Experiencing the content
& consciousness
Deletes
Everything
After
This
Happens
Swami SriDattaDev SatChitAnanda
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