REALISM: a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
VISIONARY: thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.
CREATIONISM: the action or process of bringing something into existence.
Realism
Our brains create every color smell taste sound physical sensation emotion thing we experience.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Length 2:24:21 | May 28, 2020
Most of us believe we perceive reality as it generally is, with perhaps some slight distortions. But mathematical models based on natural selection suggest that our strongest intuitions may be false. On this episode of Conversations with Tom, Donald Hoffman and Tom Bilyeu discuss the fascinating possibilities that stem from the theory that evolution gave us the equivalent of a desktop interface that hides the real truth from us so that we can take effective action. They discuss the nature of consciousness, free will, space-time, causality and the self.
SHOW NOTES:
- Most of us believe that we see reality as it is. But we don’t. [1:14]
- Donald describes how mathematical game theory explains natural selection [3:42]
- Donald talks about a game he created to simulate evolution [9:33]
- Seeing the truth and seeing what you need to survive are very different things [13:51]
- Evolution gave us the equivalent of a desktop interface, not the truth [18:11]
- Every creature has a different user interface and perceives a different reality [24:57]
- Science progresses because we push our best theories to their limit [29:05]
- If we let go of logic and reasoning, then we have nothing left [32:10]
- There will always be unprovable truths. You can never know it all. [35:14]
- Evolution has created various forms of virtual reality [39:40]
- Donald describes the process by which you “see” an apple [42:05]
- Evolution tells us that the language of space and time does not describe reality [47:53]
- Donald proposes that reality is a vast social network of conscious agents [49:39]
- A conscious agent creates their interpretation from their experiences [53:32]
- What is consciousness? [57:12]
- What does a conscious agent need to do? [1:00:49]
- Donald and Tom discuss fascinating cases of split-brain patients [1:08:13]
- If your visualization tool is very good, it can focus on finer and finer detail [1:11:36]
- If space-time is doomed then is causality doomed as well? [1:22:17]
- Tom and Donald discuss the nature of cause and effect [1:24:35]
- Donald discusses free will and its relationship to cause and effect [1:28:01]
- The self is a construction just like space and time [1:30:27]
- You can never experience yourself choosing [1:39:15]
- Donald describes the experience of realizing that he is just inside a VR headset [1:40:01]
- What created math? [1:44:53]
- What’s the difference between math all the way down and turtles all the way down? [1:50:25]
- Tom and Donald discuss the double-slit experiment in physics [1:56:18]
- Donald talks about his wife and his marriage [2:01:49]
- Donald and Tom discuss the possibility of taking off the headset [2:03:10]
- Donald and Tom discuss why they haven’t used psychedelics [2:07:10]
- Since space-time is doomed, what’s next? [2:13:27]
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Length 28:06 | May 24, 2018
Is there an 8-dimensional “engine” behind our universe? Join Marion Kerr on a fun, visually exciting journey as she explores a mysterious, highly complex structure known simply as ‘E8’–a weird, 8-dimensional mathematical object that for some, strange reason, appears to encode all of the particles and forces of our 3-dimensional universe.
Physicist Garrett talks about his groundbreaking discovery about E8 which relates deeply to our reality. And Klee Irwin and his group of research scientists show why they believe that the universe is essentially a 3-dimensional “shadow” of this enigmatic E8 that may exist behind the curtain of our reality.
Length 1:18:03 | Jul 7, 2017
Jack Sarfatti stopped by Quantum Gravity Research last week to give a talk on how human consciousness is now easily understood as a natural physical phenomenon. This explanation can be tested with nano-electronic machines that will be at least as conscious as we are. The phenomenon is universal like gravity suggesting that we live in a conscious hologram universe.
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Consciousness
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Length 6:57 | Mar 27, 2020
What would it take for consciousness to defeat materialism or physicalism? This is the worldview that only the physical is real, which is the dominant view of scientists and philosophers. Here’s what it would take: our inner awareness, our experience of what things feel like, could not be explained by physical brain alone That’s it. A tall order, though.
David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness. He is perhaps best known for formulating the hard problem of consciousness which could be stated as “why does the feeling which accompanies awareness of sensory information exist at all?”
In 1994, Chalmers presented a lecture at the inaugural Toward a Science of Consciousness conference. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, this “lecture established Chalmers as a thinker to be reckoned with and goosed a nascent field into greater prominence.”
Length 103:47 (video link set to start at 53:50) | October 1998 (Hawaii)
Terence McKenna described a great deal of what we know as Ascension, the speeding up of time, the “novelty” of the present-moment universe, what we would construe as Fifth Dimensionality, etc.
In this last video interview before his untimely death, Terence McKenna describes Novelty Theory to director John Hazard with an elaboration of its core principles involving hyper-complexification and the compression of Time.
Terence McKenna - 'Stoned Ape' Theory
Inverse (science) | Sarah Sloat | 7.14.2017
The ‘Stoned Ape’ Theory Might Explain Our Extraordinary Evolution
A scientist resurfaces a psychedelic retelling of human evolution.
BIG THINK | Robby Berman | 11 April 2019
The human brain doubled in power, very suddenly, 200,000 years ago. Why?
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind’s early leap of consciousness is revived.
Length 5:42 | Mar 4, 2020
In this short clip from his Royal Institution talk on psychedelics and the mind, Michael Pollan gives an example of how psychedelic drug therapy can result in profound experiences.
High Kingdom: Why Animals Take Psychedelic Substances | Alex K. Gearin, PhD
Many animals choose to repeatedly take psychedelic substances. Whether among deer, monkeys or moths, the animal impulse to “trip” is a curious phenomena that has spawned a variety of theories from the scientific community.
1 Goats on Psychedelic Mushrooms
2 Ayahuasca Jaguars
3 Toad Tripping Dogs
4 Catnip Felines
5 Wild Animals and the Psychedelic Impulse
6 Psychedelic Hunting Dogs
7 DMT Monkey Experiment
8 Inside the Minds of Psychedelic Animals
9 Lemurs on millipedes
10 Octopus on MDMA
11 Various animals on cannabis
12 Spiders on all sorts
13 Dolphins on pufferfish
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
Scientific American | Bernardo Kastrup
Consciousness may never arise—be it in babies, toddlers, children or adults—because it may always be there to begin with. For all we know, what arises is merely a metacognitive configuration of preexisting consciousness. If so, consciousness may be fundamental in nature—an inherent aspect of every mental process, not a property constituted or somehow generated by particular physical arrangements of the brain.
The Guardian | Oliver Burkeman
One spring morning in Tucson, Arizona, in 1994, an unknown philosopher named David Chalmers got up to give a talk on consciousness…
Length 5:42 | Mar 4, 2020
All Things Dull And Ugly, the Lord God made them all, la la la
Genuinely intelligent observation humour on the reality of religious good vs evil.
