Comments by "Aga" (@aga5109) on "Is Reality an Illusion? | Dr. Donald Hoffman | EP 387" video.

  1. To me, it looks like overly simplistic mathematical models built on crude theories - the theory of evolution is - about highly complex systems & processes leading to absurd self- refuting findings & walking in a fog. For example, the complexity of perception, information processing, and modelling of the reality in humans can not be described by crude models related to simple organisms. In my view, the complexity of "a receiver & a processor of signals" from the outside world is necessary to correctly approximate the complexity of the outside world for survival & adaptation to it. Thus, the higher complexity of a brain (mind), the better approximation of the reality we perceive & model its representations. What we can not perceive is described by mathematical equations, which are confirmed by experiments & data that rander them valid. & further on applicable in technological applications. But not only. There are higher goals than merely survival of genes & adaptation. It is evident in humans. Why do we perceive & process art? Why do we sacrifice life for non related others? It shows to me that the evolution theory & mathematical models build on it, if applied to complex systems, lead to absurd theories like Hoffman's Methaphisical Conscious Realism Thesis & and results Maybe these presuppositions & calculations work for simple organisms only. It entails a great degree of reductionism. Reductionism is over simplifying something highly complex & it is not true. I'm a psychologist myself, with strong interests in physics.
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