#178 The Reality Illusion

Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 9:36 p.m.

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Sam and Annaka Harris speak with Donald Hoffman about his book \\u201cThe Case Against Reality.\\u201d They discuss how evolution has failed to select for true perceptions of the world, his \\u201cinterface theory\\u201d of perception, the primacy of math and logic, how space and time cannot be fundamental, the threat of epistemological skepticism, causality as a useful fiction, the hard problem of consciousness, agency, free will, panpsychism, a mathematics of conscious agents, philosophical idealism, death, psychedelics, the relationship between consciousness and mathematics, and many other topics.

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