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Podcast: Freedom Pact | Joseph and Lewis
Episode: #124: Professor Donald Hoffman on Consciousness, Reality and Evolution
Description: Today on the show, we are joined by Professor Donald Hoffman. Donald Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist at the University of California.
We’ve got a mind-blowing episode for you today, and one that may needed to be re-listened to multiple times. In Doanld’s book 'The Case Against Reality', Donald argues that perception doesn’t present things as they are but instead acts like a desktop interface enabling us to interact with the world.
Donald’s theory in the Case against reality is that evolution has pulled the wool over our eyes and for that reason, we don’t see real...