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Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293" video.
Reality isn't the illusion - our brain's interpretation of it is.
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mark traver Exactly. We at best share an educated guess of our common delusion about what is happening around us. It's why I identify as a devout agnostic. I'll entertain other people's ideas but there is no way to really know what's happening. The closest I can come is something like the quote credited to Bill Hicks, "Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves". And to paraphrase a great routine of his, it's just a ride in an amusement park. We trick ourselves into thinking it's more than that, forgetting that regardless of whether we're going up or down or being spun around we really only need to enjoy the ride - it will be over before we know it. Maybe we get to go again but we won't know until this one ends so we should probably all try to enjoy this one as much as possible while it lasts, eh?
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