Seeing Through the Simulation and Cosmic Consciousness | Dr. Donald Hoffman

Cognitive scientist, Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld!
Donald Hoffman is a professor of cognitive science at UC Irvine who is proposing something radical yet fully backed by scientific rigor -
First, you perceive zero percent of reality. You live in an evolutionarily convenient illusion akin to a computer desktop interface.
Second, what’s truly real underneath that illusion (and all of our scientific models) is a realm of consciousness populated by what Don calls “conscious agents.” The physical world emerges from that realm.
So, despite how the world appears, no matter what happens at the large hadron colder or what we find peering through the James Webb telescope; what all of it really is, at bottom, is consciousness expressing itself.
Links For Don:
Don's book, The Case Against Reality: shorturl.at/lOTU5
Fusions of Consciousness Paper: shorturl.at/hijxQ
Don's TED Talk: • Do we see reality as i...
Don's Bio: sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/
My previous episodes with Don: thirdeyedrops.com/tag/donald-...
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[@MikeCadvBikes]

Humanity may never recognize it, but Hoffman and his team are doing the most important work ever done. His humility and unwavering commitment to the scientific method is astounding. He and his team rank among humanity’s greatest and their achievements to date are perhaps the most important science ever done. In my opinion, that is not hyperbole.

[@MetaversalSouljah]

I mean none of this is new. He is just philosophizing and using more scientific terms to describe what they said in Advaita. About the Self and Awareness being primary, and the physical world being Maya or illusion. And that consciousness is projecting it, infinitely. That's what I gather.

[@croneyr]

“My emotions disagree with my own theories”. Love it.

[@1JohnMills]

...and that is wonderfully and surreptitiously dysfunctional! Brilliant! (on his part) 〽️

[@kathygg43]

“We should take reality seriously, but not logically” We should discern, not live in fear. This is one of the best interviews I have listened to with Dr Hoffman so far. ❤👍

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Thank you! 🙏

[@Richualistik]

Yup. Dis-C.E.R.N.🤫🫣😉

[@renotseng4809]

Is it serious? This kind of discourse takes a serious approach, but it seems silly to take it seriously. The cosmic joke has e everyone running round in circles. Saṃsāra. Wake up! You can still play the game you want to play, but that doesn't make it serious.

[@webbedtoes2]

indeed. I concur. Hoffster is getting more and more clean and confident in describing his work (and more people aren't polarizing his data but more are groking it and supporting). It's his ❤️ and vulnerability that is so easy to listen to and therefore Love him in turn 🙏🏻 also great interview sir! 🙏🏻

[@bobbydharma]

I'm a Zen buddihist and I love the knowledge he shared with us in this podcast. Very similar to ancient masters yet modern.

[@kayakMike1000]

The stuff that Hoffman says is contradictory to Buddhism. Sure, there is maya, the great illusion that is reality, but the Buddha also explained the idea that there is non-self or annatman. In terms of Hoffman's vernacular ... Who is the you that is using the space-time reality headset? Answering that question is like the tounge tasting itself, or the eye seeing itself.... (If you really thing about it, these are both impossible, the tongue can't taste itself, it needs something different to taste. The eye might see it's reflection, but that's not an eye, it's a reflection of an eye. )

[@bobbydharma]

@@kayakMike1000 Zen Buddhist

[@1JohnMills]

I like Zen "controlled breathing" ... (That's the only "zen" I care anything about.) 😂🎉

[@khard2205]

​@@kayakMike1000good piece

[@jmp01a24]

Yeh its great to hear Hoffman's insight, but the REAL DEEP info is hidden behind their money wall. You got to come as a beggar in the night, with shivering hands dropping your last 30 pieces of silver into their greedy hand to get a limited view into the REAL archive. This is just the tip, according to the guy who host this channel.... Perhaps he needs the money to cut the tale or do foot surgery, getting rid of the cloven hoofs. 📛

[@barbdrinnan1867]

Dr. Hoffman speaks reality however nobody should lose the fact that 3 dimensional reality is where we’re at. We still need to live each day with love and purpose. It’s important for us to know all this and live your best life!

[@davegcomedy1267]

Love is the source, the absolute

[@akaROOSTA]

Agreed

[@James-ll3jb]

@@akaROOSTA ...Somehow I don't think people are going to begin walking around behaving as if the reality they know is unreal lol!

[@davegcomedy1267]

@@James-ll3jb it’s the best way to get the best experience while here

[@davegcomedy1267]

@@James-ll3jb of course it’s real. Perception is reality. This is more of a challenge to open people’s minds to a higher existence. To have peace, to not fear.

[@dianawitty9628]

I woke up from a Ketamine experience, under physician assistance, taken for profound chronic PTSD from being Raped at 13 and family dynamics that lead to me being there for that experience, if you will, I’m now 64…I woke up knowing I was having profound experience…my hands were open, holding something…a ball of light, that was a three dimensional representation of this consciousness…can’t believe I’m experiencing this….thank you Avastar of Consciousness Donald for spending your time and space exploring this…fascinating!!!

[@yeshazion4098]

YES! I believe these" Orbs" ppl see ARE those Conscious Spheres. My theory❤

[@firepowerjohan]

Understanding and embracing this clip is when we become self conscious of our conciousness.

[@StevenWilliams66]

Excellent discussion. The second half really gets interesting after Dr Hoffman lays out the supporting math. That's the exciting thing about this guy. He's not shooting from his hip. He has the math to back it up. We're very lucky to have Dr. Hoffman. His parents we're also extremely intelligent and their background, like their son, is based on incredible research, knowledge and depth.

[@kzzz9445]

Yes, however, I'm not sure about his obsession with math. As far as I'm concerned, math is also pretty restricted language... He speaks of one consciousness, but one of the basic math foundational axioms is that you can draw a straight line trough 2 points. Math already presupposes that there are 2 points to draw line through and that it will be straight. Or that you can always draw a straight line in between 2 points.

[@balitzky]

He is a pioneer of new era on planet Earth.

[@davegcomedy1267]

We are the same consciousness experiencing itself through each of our realities. Since our minds dictate reality, we are the multiverse.

[@Cardioid2035]

Why do you think the vast majority of people are uncomfortable with this assertion? I’ve noticed when people openly say this about consciousness it’s usually met with contempt depending on the crowd..

[@davegcomedy1267]

@@Cardioid2035 people who haven’t had an ego death when being confronted with reality. Not everyone is meant to leave the matrix, which isn’t a monetary thing. It’s realizing our consciousness exists in all dimensions at once. We can live a lifetime in a 15-min DMT trip. That’s what this is to our higher selves. We’ll soon wake back up to the real reality. And just like how we think we’re dying on psychedelics, but when we say F it, if I die I die! THATS when the trip really begins. We can truly start to live once we aren’t afraid of death. We are timeless conscious beings come here to learn and grow. Earth is a classroom not a courtroom ✌️ ❤️

[@Corteum]

@@Cardioid2035 _"Why do you think the vast majority of people are uncomfortable with this assertion?"_ A product of their indoctrination into inferior or suboptimal states of consciousness. They will overcome it in time (or rather, life times!).

[@superconscious.]

@@Cardioid2035 mind controlled slaves are what you speak of.

[@ganglestank]

Your mind does not dictate reality, your neural structures dictate sensations which are reality TO YOU. Your mind is just a little tiny thing that remembers and comments on sensations, and it isn’t you. Your higher self dictates reality, but your ego self will try to fool you into thinking it is the one who does.

[@MrEmotional33]

I would love to see a discussion between classic renowned physicists and guys like Donald Hoffman and Nima Arkani-Hamed in the mass media (like television shows) to get this new paradigm shift in the broad public..it is time for a complete change in our world and society!

[@Acetyl53]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[@dianawitty9628]

No Boss at all…

[@Acetyl53]

@@dianawitty9628 That'd be nice, but people seem set on bouncing from one "church" to another. I'm not meaning to brag but most of what these guys are talking about I came up with on my own, and I don't have "PhD" after my name either. It's why I know they have tunnel vision and selling you on a watered down and incomplete version of Kabbalistic, Hermetic, and ancient gnostic sects. All so they can be the new boss, cause that's how this place works.

[@goyo0620]

I wanna see Nima on theory of everything podcast.

[@emmabeyza6036]

Substances like psychedelics when administered temporarily and in the minimum and safe dose can save life (prevent suicide), yet..long term all of them are NOT the answer (solution to the problem). self honesty, emotional and spiritual healing (done correctly) produce safe and lasting results..health happiness, inner peace

[@annemoore4461]

I’ve been researching on psychedelics and it’s benefits to individuals dealing with Anxiety, Depression, ADHD and from my findings, they really work and I’ve been eager to get some for a while but its been difficult to get my hands on them.

[@ohmakure4716]

The Trips I've been having really helped me a lot. I’m now able to meditate and I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well

[@dilara4130]

I was having this constant, unbearable anxiety due to work stress. Not until I came across a very intelligent mycologist. He saved my life honestly

[@dilara4130]

His name is *DR Adolf Petter*

[@ryancihet555]

@ohmakure4716 I feel the same way too. I put too much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety levels. I am also glad to be a part of this community.

[@MauiMuse808]

I just burnt the words, 'we are infinite' into a chest last week...im a pyrography artist and it was my intuitive project of the day💫🙂 happy to be here listening in now..

[@JanSandahl]

One of the best recent discussions w Donald. Have followed him since his Ted talk. Then, very politely suggesting, implying, a "virtual reality" type view of reality. Now, surpassing most others in how outspoken and direct he is about it. Thank you, both! Looking forward to the work being done in the years ahead.

[@marksweet6298]

Future scientists will be grateful that the medium of video exists to preserve brilliant minds like Donald Hoffman.

[@brybry22]

Future scientists will all be AI

[@turkishdewdrop]

This just sends me straight into the void. I’ve all been a nihilist since the age of eleven, of course I didn’t know what is nihilism then, but no matter. No matter how I try, I can’t seem to understand this, seemingly pointless act of dying forgetting and coming right back, dying forgetting and coming right back…. Forever and ever and ever. We are all god. We are all bored as hell, apparently, why else do we do this? Trick ourselves with an endless array of avatars for infinity. It’s like haven’t we experienced death and suffering and sorrow and disease and pain and watching as our corpses slowly rot away, and then rush to fetch another? As profound as all of this may be, I AM just tired of doing this, I really am. AND, there’s never any way out, as I am god and this IS what I want to do… It’s exhausting…. I, as god NEED to find another way, to amuse myself….

[@MelissaAlejandra96]

I relate to this, and the pointlessness and helplessness within it, devoid of deep worthwhile meaning thats at a level enough to outweigh the prior, the things you mention. Bernardo Kastrup speaks to all of this by “finding freedom as the slave”, he elaborates. I’m wanting to explore that though still feel a little bit blind as to crossing that bridge from where I am to where he points to. Regardless, I relate to your experience.

[@Corteum]

Try the whole ayahuasca experience and go deep into it, then ask the question.

[@SpaceisAFantasy]

Maybe you should look Into the soultrap topic - so you dont have to come back again to this hellrealm before another mindwipe and a body wich could be worse that the one youre in now

[@josephcarioggia9506]

Yeah learn to love and give more...blah blah...next...I'll keep the dogs and cats if possible.

[@swatisquantum]

1) you’re not God, you’re temporal ego (jinn mind) convinced you that you are. 2) No matter how much you wrap your mind around the nature and understanding of the state of your headset avatar, it will only be 0.0001% of what it actually is. The purpose is to be one to the Will of the creator in this form and in that journey better understand the creator. Everyone has their own path. Cheers. Peace be with you.

[@marinashemetovasteele2457]

I am not a scientist but I was blessed with ability to read the informational field via intentional ecological request to aquire truth about any topic. I get chills when Dr. HOFFMAN talking. We observe our reality by creating our personal hologram in 360 degree field screen projected from the inside to the outside in a specific frequency which represents the level of a person and there are 9 levels of consciousness. 7 represent our chakras and 2 above head in our aura. 70% population is on the first level. Only 3% on 4th and rest in between. We all generate our own reality by harvesting energy via DNA structure. And our outside reality is built based on sacred geometry and complicated mathematical formulas involving operators for each specific function used for varios kinds of materialization. Won't go further... most wont get it...

[@jacobcullum9597]

I’m so glad I found this interview. So stoked to dig in. My mind has been blown by Donald Hoffmans’ work and notions.

[@sisu4134]

Yes!!! Love Dr. Hoffman and a 2 hour video with him- count me in 🎉❤☺️

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

✨🙏✨

[@MrTrda]

I like your style ; )

[@alexgzbro101]

I been watching all of Hoffman's interviews just to get a better understanding on his theory. 😊

[@mstrG]

I'm following Don whenever he speak, his ideas feel right.

[@paulburgess5111]

I agree. And I’m someone who has always been skeptical of following any sort of intuition. I think Bernardo Kastrup (who makes the same kind of sounds Don is making) put it perfectly. If you can stay in touch with the relationship between the ego and broader states of consciousness (including meta-consciousness) in a flow state of being, intuition can be incredibly powerful. Like you said, it feels right... like beyond a gut feeling.

[@kayakMike1000]

Strikes me as a grifter on a media tour. He shows up on just about everyone's podcast as if he is campaigning his ideas into the zeitgeist.

[@kayakMike1000]

Well, hate to burst your bubble... Donald Hoffman is an illusion produced by your space-time VR headset. Your feeling of rightness is just an interpretation of a complex unseen reality that you don't experience directly because all you need is vague feelings to support your biology.

[@thejamboy3556]

@@kayakMike1000or his ideas are very interesting, and get a lot of attention, so any podcaster with 2 brain cells to fire off would want to have him on, he’s mentioned the only reason he does media is to get young people interested in math and science because we need scientist

[@bumblebeme]

I love Donald Hoffman, i vaguely remembering him in the 90s talking about this and not understanding him because I was not open to this stuff and was just a child. But through experience I see that he is way beyond his time. I wish he would explain more on a basic level demonstrations like the microscope and high energy creating a black hole more. I watched everyone of his interviews and have to pick up little by little cause he explains different things in each one. You asked good questions in this interview.

[@newtonfinn164]

The primary task is not to understand, much less escape from, the game (the headset), but rather to throw oneself into the game and play it passionately so as to grow in love and wisdom. Such is true religion, genuine spirituality. Everything else are what William James called overbeliefs.

[@lancelotdufrane]

What a fascinating conversation! Thank You!

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

🙏🙏🙏

[@amyfox3233]

Fascinating topic. I've listened to this conversation a few times and it continues to give me great things to ponder. Thx guys 😊

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

🙏🙏🙏

[@ahmaddodo4270]

Consciousness: Reality or Illusion ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKTbf2mki695lacsi=sL-hjAIYa62e2wmV

[@mylist7118]

The work,of Ian McGilchrist is mind blowing. Must see.

[@nickidaisydandelion4044]

Ian McGilchrist doesn't believe those theories. He talks critically about it.

[@Killane10]

You are both cracking open our understanding of what we are to reveal new fascinating perspectives ❤

[@Meditation409]

Your intro was great! You pulled me into the nature of the upcoming topic of discussions!! 🤙💕😃

[@MOAON_AABE]

I highly respect Dr Donald Hoffman.

[@crystalfachko1905]

Best thing I've ever seen on YT, Thank you both, All💖🤍💙✌️🌎

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Wow thank you 🙏

[@slow-lane]

Phenomenal interview, lots of interesting material. A shame there are commercials every seven minutes.

[@109ARIANA]

Thank you so much!

[@johnparvin6295]

1:18:47 I am beginning to appreciate Dr. Hoffman’s grievance here, and it is a real one. Dogmatism within religion is deadly and must be stopped at all costs. I come from a religious tradition that says my God’s entire Law hangs on loving my neighbor, because no one who loves one’s neighbor harms them. However, of course I have seen how Christianity has been used to justify stealing, killing, and destroying around the world for potentially thousands of years. How could a religion stray so far from its true purpose? This is a question that keeps Christians up at night, and I’m very thankful that Dr. Hoffman is also wrestling with this problem. Religion evolves. That is what is missing from modern Christian denominations. The Bible describes evolution as “The Mystery of The Two Olive Trees.” Members from the cultivated olive tree are cut off to make room for members from the uncultivated olive tree to be unnaturally grafted on. This process takes place every generation. And there is, in every generation, a hyperreligious, arrogant group of people who resist such evolution. They are the members that get cut off, such as the Pharisees, Saul’s line as king of Israel, the humans who lived during the days of Noah, or Satan and his angels. This event is called “The Repentance of The LORD,” in which God repents of creating certain members of His Body and forcibly removes them by “plucking out and chopping off the member that would lead us to temptation.” In their place, God chooses the foolish things of the world, the weak things, the last things, the things that are not, and the humble things to be unnaturally grafted on to His Body, the cultivated olive tree. This process is called “The Ascension of The Scapegoat.” The Repentance of The LORD is happening today, and those dogmatic religious people Dr. Hoffman is talking about are going to be forcibly removed and replaced by others who will do better than them.

[@kirstenkruska9316]

I love this podcast! I was excited to see Donald Hoffman as a guest with you. Your conversational style is admirable ❤️🪷🙏☸️

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

🙏

[@gazmasonik2411]

Finally cosmologists have become spiritual masters with deep insights! Space-time no longer primary, mind is

[@Ledhoven]

@@gazmasonik2411 all is mind Hermetic principality

[@ezreality]

Great podcast... Thank you...

[@mystijkissler8183]

I knew it, Dr. Hoffman, your description of reality, your theory, feels true to my insight intuitively. Thank you.

[@kayakMike1000]

How? It's pseudoscience.

[@Nonamelol.]

@@kayakMike1000​⁠​⁠​⁠ Science describes what we can perceive, not what we can’t. If true reality is beyond space-time, (as implied in this theory) then we will never be able to prove it scientifically, spacetime is a limit.

[@babettegeiger1591]

Brilliant! Your videos are so well done and I can’t get enough of Donald Hoffman. Listening to this one again bcs it’s so interesting. Thank you!

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Thank you 🙏

[@AmB39]

Wow that opening dialogue was eye opening. Literally my eyes widened when taking that theory in.

[@jacobvanveit3437]

“Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead only try and realize the truth (what truth you ask?). There is no spoon! Then you will see it’s not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself”. - Matrix

[@nickidaisydandelion4044]

David Icke wrote in his books that there are people in Eastern Europe who are able to walk through walls. There were people in Mongolia who walked out of prisons that way. He says that our indoctrination goes so deep that we actually establish the walls and we see walls that the collective has set up with their strong belief. Our world is a belief network. This is difficult to comprehend. But I have observed some of that with some things already. It's quite unsettling. Have you heard of the Kozeyrev mirror room?

[@jacobvanveit3437]

@@nickidaisydandelion4044 belief is analogous to magic. It sounds crazy but belief is the one thing in life that truly makes the most change.

[@nickidaisydandelion4044]

@@jacobvanveit3437 Yes that is what it seems like. I admire Wim Hof and people who keep their mind upright and positive no matter how much garbage and chaos and suffering is going on in the world. What really bothers me is the mind control done by the CIA against anyone who is more resistant to brainwashing. This is a tough one to deal with for me.

[@jacobvanveit3437]

@@nickidaisydandelion4044 I think you mean people that are more susceptible to brainwashing.

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

Just look at the placebo effect. You are powerful. You can influence the data and perform miracles. Walk in the light.

[@user-cv8nj7dh3q]

LOVE ur "pointers' clarification!

[@Meditation409]

That was a great discussion. Reality boiling down to static geometric shapes! WOW 😲

[@joeyscott4299]

Excellent!! Thank you!!!

[@CreativeCodex]

Michael! You’re doing such admirable work here! Heady stuff. Don’t confuse the map for the territory! Great takeaway.

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Thank you brother! 🙏

[@0phiologist]

The amplituhedron is so fascinating. To me, it is so eerily similar to the revelations of the 'Big Ring' and 'Giant arc' structures in astronomy/astrophysics. It seems we keep finding these "pointers" as you say. The harder we dig into the sciences, the more we keep finding these things that defy any understanding we thought we had about our reality, almost a wink and a nod from the universe. Especially as Dr. Hoffman says it perpetuates new theories and new understandings of the thing that is life, spacetime, the machine, etc. We think we know, and the mother laughs!

[@jmcc7886]

one of the best interviews on youtube, thank you 👏

[@carlossoto5521]

This is a very interesting conversation. Thank you for posting. I have the idea that the way physicists are approaching their comprehension of the world is not right, finding a theory of everything is like going with a car inside a lake, the car works for a road, you need a boat to navigate a lake. The analogy is to theories breaking down in singularity or consciousness. We need new math, new theories and new experiments.

[@paulburgess5111]

Incredible name for a podcast by the way

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

These conversations are creating the reality that is spoken.

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

I had an obe on mescaline in 1997. Never been the same since. Enjoy this life. That’s why we are here.

[@mikemiller659]

These are exciting times, for as long as I can remember I have Wondered who am I, why am I here, what is This place, Why is Earth such a angry dangerous place while being Amazing and Beautiful. And other life in the universe..what is their story? Thank you for discussing this.

[@janinearif7850]

Just realised how brilliant the name of the page is third eye drops how clever ❤❤

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

✨🙏✨

[@gireeshneroth7127]

We are consciousness living a mind wake. Consciousness expressing itself within itself.

[@Acetyl53]

Maybe you should learn to tack an "I THINK" on the beginning of that.

[@AndreaDingbatt]

This Resonates with the way I am seeing Reality!! Many Thanks for Enlightening and Clarifying things in such a great way!!

[@Lovebuzz11-11]

I love this talk and I absolutely love this community ❤❤❤

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

🙏

[@24DaniS24]

God damn, this is one of my favorite channels ❤

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Thank you 🙏

[@Dskrib]

Thx for asking some new questions. I do wish someone would push harder on the details, and ask for English translations of specialized math terms. You started to once, then quickly backed out. People are not afraid of math, they just need to know what the words mean. I’m sure you want to know too.

[@olegpetinov587]

THANK YOU!!!

[@glitt2005]

Thank you very much for this deep, heartfelt and pertinent interview, from beginning to the very end. Looking forward to the next one with this -I couldn't agree more- unparalleled genius. I'm so glad (and I feel grateful) that Donald Hoffman is part of the active scientific world today. Also, hopefully, interviews such as this one, will contribute to speeding up the process of appreciating/seriously considering/validating his concrete theory (and others coming from other wise people) during our lifetime --and not only becoming a scientific legacy after 100 years the theory had been postulated! (as it is almost always the case with breakthroughs -very especially- in the scientific world, unfortunately). Thank you so much again

[@spiritfilled5758]

Great interview

[@QuantumConsciousness888]

There's a Shadow behind every Truth until the final Truth. The final Truth is that Life is Consciousness. Everything below that is based on an individual's beliefs and experiences. We're all a fragment of creation itself. We are pure Spirit/Existence...💎♾️🙏

[@leighanncherry6710]

Fascinating conversation. Grateful I've found your channel. I feel like I just walked up to the mirror and poked it to watch the ripples. Reluctant to admit this but had to pause around an hour in and watch the old Monty Python dead parrot sketch....

[@redfeather22sa]

Donald Hoffman is totally right !!!

[@paintysubjektiv8987]

Thank you both for the hole conversation ! I wonder if one of you has taken Walter Russell into account or the plasmoidal maths of Malcolm bendall, i think it could match and maybe bring forward the geometrical laws into applieable trancending perspective...

[@spenceman62]

This channel is amazing!!!!!!!! I am always running threw these ideas when I am working my 9-5 job it makes the day zoom by 😂😂😂

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Welcome!

[@JI814]

I'd love to see Dr. Hoffman in a conversation with Chris Langan as I think there are commonalities in their theories.

[@user-kp7xg1yi6k]

Thanks Dr. Hoffman the idea that we can approach viewing the insides of a Proton with a Electron Spectrum Microscope is mind-blowing given the Planck Scale is so small... Are scientists still trying to create new anti-matter molecules in the lab?

[@k8eekatt]

If consciousness is a universal awareness playing peekaboo with itself, as soon as you understand you will fall into forgetfulness to start the game again.

[@Alex-cb7cc]

I guess that's exactly how mind at large (AND mind at small 😌) works. For me personally, it's kind of struggeling trying to integrate Hofman's and especially Kastrup's philosophy into my daily life 😉 Old patterns are powerful and most people are scared of new perspectives..

[@k8eekatt]

@@Alex-cb7cc I really enjoy your thoughtful and kind reply. Thanks for sharing!

[@johnharris3118]

Great video, thanks. Donald is very much on the same page as Tom Campbell's My Big Toe (Theory Of Everything) - Consciousness is fundamental and our reality may be modelled as if it were a simulated virtual reality which is part of Consciousness's strategy to evolve it's own being (by increasing co-operation, love etc)

[@matrixmatico695]

Tom doesn't talk about the arcontes feeding off humans and creating the hologram that veils reality

[@mediacrusher]

I want to see Donald Hoffman and Nick Land go head to head!

[@Dasha0369]

Consciousness is the most advanced microscope in the universe. The human DNA, the human state of being is the most advanced technology we have up to this point. Look within, the knowledge of all the Universe is found through meditation. All manifestation is created through faith in any particular thing. We are the creators of our holographic reality. But our reality will never escape the limits of our faith in a potential.

[@holotimbreecho]

What's new is the mathematization involved. Kant formulated this in his Critique of Pure Reason 1789'ish. " Space & Time are empirically real but transcendentally Ideal' .. meaning we experience through our senses, but the source of these constructs are from the mind's processing. Bernado Kastrup is another analytical idealist with much the same viewpoint. Even Einstein said ' as soon as an object's energy is low enough to be perceived by the senses, we call it matter. there is no matter; he read Kant.

[@Artezia]

If truth can be seen, everyone will see it.

[@Borninthewrongera]

The theory of everything is an immeasurable consciousness who created everything around us, including us. One whose mind and knowledge can can never be fully comprehended by our finite brains.. So, yes, we will ALWAYS be searching. What we should be searching for primarily is THE CREATOR.

[@SpiritLevel888]

Jesus is the CREATOR *(John 1:1-5)*

[@Borninthewrongera]

@@SpiritLevel888 I agree 1000% ❤️

[@R3l3ntl3sss]

This videos has caused my mind to explode. I’m going to study this for months. I wonder if Dr. Hoffman has done psychedelics before

[@amylee9]

I think I remember him saying no in other videos. However, he’s a big meditator.

[@VDP207]

First time viewer here. I need to comeback and finish this upload, but upon hearing the host's introduction and first question, my condescension radar detected a bogie at 12 o'clock!!😅 I'm sure Don takes it in stride. It's a long take at a couple hours so I'll revisit later

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Thanks for checking it out. What about it is condescending?

[@schwajj]

device miscalibration

[@Whiteshaddow326]

Not only is time illusion, but fear is an illusion as well

[@LexiChampion-rr2mc]

Fear is only for you and your experience. You will create fear from nothing, when you're in danger youve placed yourself into a new situation which you uncertainty pervades reality. You can only overcome fear by avoiding the unknown.

[@trevcorbett6161]

... one only fears the unknown if one has not mastered control over the lower instincts with reasoning and choice. It's about perspective. Nothing is truely known, as can be seen in trying to define reality & consciousness. Knowing is an assumption belief theory only. Theories are not truth, they are opinions only. One can understand this concept that nothing is truely known and live/understand accordingly, that the true state of being is a continual state of continuous change, and therefore choose to live with enthusiasm and opportunity rather than fear.

[@Whiteshaddow326]

Fear is a tool that the devil uses his only tool deception lies and fear

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

“They” want you to be afraid. Vibrating on low frequency so that the Phoenix chooses you instead of them, hiding in their bunkers.

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

The powers that be want you afraid. They forcibly lower your vibration, through fear and trauma so the Phoenix can snatch you up as they hide in their underground bunkers.

[@tjssailor4473]

We often hear of the hard problem of consciousness. Why is there qualia or experience of anything in the first place? I would submit there is an even harder and more important question - why do I seem to be a specific individual experiencing a specific subset of qualia? If material reductionism is to be relevant to the big questions, then it has to explain not how brains generate consciousness but how the specific brain in my head could create the specific consciousness I seem to be looking out of the eyeballs of this specific body. Why do I PERSONNALLY EXIST as an individual in the first place? Out of the infinite matter in the universe how is it that only the three pounds in my head could create me? What is different about that three pounds for this to occur? Consider that billions of bodies showed up before this one. Billions showed up after this one. None of them seem to have created my existence. This body could be running around without it being ME just like these billions of others All bodies are made of the same elements. All brains have the same basic anatomy. If all brains are basically the same and are creating consciousness then there should only be ONE consciousness staring out of every set of eyeballs simultaneously. A hopelessly superimposed existence from every possible viewpoint at once. I’m sure that materialists would claim that no, no, brains are so complex they are all different. Ok, so what would have to be recreated in another brain for me to exist staring out of another set of eyeballs? If an exact copy of my body was created in antarctica would I find myself to exist there freezing my butt off while also sitting in the comfort my living room? According to the physicalists that would have to be true or their argument collapses into incoherence. Then in a random universe where things statistically reoccur why couldn’t I exist again or even in more then one place at a time? Why do the physicalists so adamantly insist that an individualized consciousness could only exist once? How could pure awareness even be individualized? Physicalists demand measurements but with consciousness there is nothing to measure. There is electricity in the brain they say. We’ll measure that. Is electricity consciousness? If so then once I again I should exist everywhere at once since electricity cannot be individualized. My blender uses electricity. Is it a genius? Unless materialists can answer these questions their premise collapses like the house of cards it is. As far as other ways of thought are concerned only Dualism and Idealism can account for our sense of individuality. Dualism assumes we are all individual spirits/souls matched up to a body through some undefined process. Idealism, which states that consciousness is primary also answers the question of why I seem to exist as an individual. One consciousness exists looking out of every set of eyeballs and in the process the illusion of individuality is created in each case. I am you, you are me, we are one.

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Yes, the question of consciousness boundaries is a very interesting one for sure.

[@Corteum]

Material reductionism cant even define consciousness, let alone provide a theory that explains how to get individual aware subjects (i.e. consciousness) from a combination of unconscious objects (i.e. atoms, molecules; baryonic matter). The question remains!

[@LexiChampion-rr2mc]

We are all one there is no time, consciousness is not subject to the constraints or space time. In deep meditation I can reach to other worlds and other entities and reach into their mind see what they see. If not for my connection to this body I feel that I will eventually experience all that can be experienced though every vessel for eternity. This is why it is so imperative to love one another and show understanding to never judge and only guide those who are searching

[@dianawitty9628]

We take in and it is with in us individually and collectively, Consciousness is like sound all around us, like we take in light…then construct space time reality from light, sound, taste, pressure…the lasting of this experience held in memory influenced by learning from others intersections (history) which at this time leads to bias’ about space time…what we seem to be pre-occupied with… Seeing all of us as expressed Consciousness being fundamental says a lot about this place, your individual or collective experience, that space time just can’t hold.

[@theclosing]

so great that he came back 💖

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

🥰🥰🥰

[@user-cv8nj7dh3q]

i'm happy prof hoff (if i may) mentioned creativity in the field of science as many i feel do not equate the former with the latter?

[@1unicorngoddess]

Hi ❤ loved your videos. Amazing

[@THIRDEYEDROPS]

Thank you 🙏

[@mylist7118]

Six years ago I removed a Yogi teabag’s words of wisdom held by a string attached to the floating teabag. It has been attached to the back of my cell phone ever since: “The unknown is where all outcomes are possible - enter it with Grace.”

[@VCRAGE]

We must leave our humanity behind. We are essentially just animals with a lot more capable weapons until we break free of the human condition. Our thoughts lie to us, our feelings misguide us, our perceptions are built around survival and what that basically entails, a short leash to base our subjective reality on. History repeats ad infinitum because we can't move on past our baseness.

[@alkintugsal7563]

This explains the experiences people have on DMT trips and NDE they are almost the same they see geometric forms and entities and it seems to be giving the message of love and peace and being fearful of anything.

[@DavidVega-wi5pr]

I 100 percent agree with you this is good

[@alejandrosaez1772]

Spacetime is conceptual, it can't be dismissed or accepted using another concept like the Plank scale because we are still using mind as a tool of knowing what can't be known through mind. That would be like saying the map is actually the territory

[@ganderstein3426]

You mentioned that lack of the knowledge of math and geometry are debilitating in the pursuit of understanding what we're pursuing. I agree. But, I'd argue that lack of a solid philosophical foundation is equally debilitating. I feel that the three act as a triumvirate of enlightenment.

[@lindaraereneau484]

There is actually a great amount if research. See Dean Radin's work of the Noetic Institute. There is massive irrefutable evidence of "psychic" functioning. It is shunned and actually feared by many. However, I think it's important that you (Hoffman) focus on your part of the work.

[@lukesandy04]

The man's speaking my language ❤️

[@Whiteshaddow326]

90% of the things people worry about never happen

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

Unless it’s cancer. People worry themselves into disease.

[@RocketPipeTV]

1:00:18 exactly, we can only see a tiny slice of the spectrum of light.

[@jakemelinko]

I'll bet this came up on my feed because of watching archaix and I'll bet he's read this author. I'm 8 mins in and already getting gems. I want some dope pins!

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

Careful. Everytime I mention Phoenix the comment disappears

[@herrlosse]

This is too interesting to fall asleep to

[@shamaniccolonic777]

His certainty tells you everything you need to know.

[@richardasmus9426]

True Comic Consciousness means knowing you don't need to understand. Loving our existence brings more joy than looking up its skirt.

[@smartbart80]

“They find these structures so we’re gonna have to rethink everything”. That escalated religiously quickly lol

[@KathleenMoore-fr5fm]

I feel asleep while listening to this. I dreamt that don and I were in high school taking a test❤

[@alkintugsal7563]

😄

[@Watchingthesim]

Understanding the new reality broke my avatar's head

[@websurfer5772]

13:20 - Do we have proof that scientists have seen the weak force inside a proton? I'm not finding any online. If there is, please let me know. I'd like to see it.

[@DougDobak]

Interesting.

[@rosaigartua5691]

It's possible to find a spanish translation of video?