Consciousness & Medicine
Researcher Proposes Reality Functions Like VR Game Rendered by Consciousness
Lewis Howes School of Greatness
Evolution Designed Your Senses to Hide Reality | Donald Hoffman
"What we evolved was more like a headset, a VR headset to play the game of life. You're not seeing the reality, which in this example would be there's some supercomputer somewhere with all sorts of bits running. That's the reality. All I can see is this headset. The person who doesn't see that reality of the computer and just sees a little fake steering wheel and the fake cars is going to beat you."
Hoffman presents a controversial theory that human perception works like a virtual reality headset, with evolution optimizing us to play a survival game rather than perceive objective truth. He argues that spacetime and physical objects only exist when perceived—similar to objects rendering in video games—and that one consciousness experiences reality through infinite avatars.
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