Reality's Adaptive Fiction
Donald Hoffman, a professor of Cognitive Sciences, challenges our understanding of reality by stating that what we see is just an adaptive fiction. He argues that whatever reality is, it's not what we see, and that our perception of the world is just a construct of our minds.In this clip
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Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293
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