Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Disagreement with Donald Hoffman about reality | John Vervaeke and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. But Hoffmann makes claims specifically about things "beyond the horizon" when calls everything an "illusion". >More so all our theories are part of that illusion. That's precisely the problem. His argument that everything is an "illusion" is based on illusions. All of this seems like a very confused mangling of Kant's criticism of pure reason.
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  2.  @IAn0nI  When you're not a "materialist", you should have even more doubts about using the word "illusion", because for you an illusion is just an impression at odds with another class of impressions. Ie "everything is an illusion" is then completely meaningless. Hoffman does presuppose not just materialism, but he's making claims about the world prior to any observation.
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  3. What does that absolutely trivial observation have to do with everything being an illusion?
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  4. If mathematics is not "made in the brain" then consciousness is the "base of the reality pyramid"??? What is that even supposed to mean? I've always found the view that consciousness is the ground of physics to be like the belief that a flashlight illuminating a dark room creates the objects therein. Of course anything under investigation appears on the stage of consciousness, but that is no ground to believe that consciousness creates things in some outside world. Consciousness creates things as they appear to you.
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