Consciousness and the Illusion of Reality | Dr. Donald Hoffman| Mind Meld 371

<p><strong><span class="s1"><a href= "https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops">🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon</a></span></strong></p> <p><strong>Cognitive scientist and author of <em><a href= "https://shorturl.at/lOTU5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case Against Reality</a>,</em> Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld!</strong></p> <p>*<a href="https://youtu.be/SUrt41bK6vo" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><strong>Video version here</strong></a>*</p> <p><span style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> <em>* Support our sponsor, Qualia Mind! - Try the best brain fuel on earth. Use code THIRDEYEDROPS to save an extra 15% at checkout at <a href="neurohacker.com/THIRDEYEDROPS" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">neurohacker.com/THIRDEYEDROPS </a>*</em></span></p> <p>Don is a professor of cognitive science at UC Irvine who is proposing something radical yet fully backed by scientific rigor — </p> <p>First, you perceive zero percent of reality. You live in an evolutionarily convenient illusion akin to a computer desktop interface. Second, what’s truly real underneath that illusion (and all of our scientific models) is a realm of consciousness populated by what Don calls “conscious agents.”</p> <p>So, despite how the world appears, no matter what happens at the large hadron colder or what we find peering through the James Webb telescope; what all of it is, at bottom, is consciousness expressing itself.</p> <p><strong>Links For Don: </strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://shorturl.at/lOTU5" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Don's book, The Case Against Reality</a>:</li> <li><a href="https://shorturl.at/hijxQ" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Fusions of Consciousness Paper</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY&t=3s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don's TED Talk</a></li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>Support Third Eye Drops:</strong></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href=