André Duqum

I feel like you're crushing it.

Your recall of information is absolutely astounding.

And I just love how passionate you are about all of this too, man.

It makes it so lively and engaging to talk about.

Now, there's a couple different avenues here.

There's one, which is like sort of the Hoffman understanding of the headset analogy, how we do not see our brains through the cameras of our eyes, do not see reality in the way that we historically have thought neurologically.

Rather, our brains are prediction machines.

There's this great book, The Experience Machine, by Andy Clark, who kind of elucidates this a bit.

How our brains co-create reality.

We literally predict and guess in our brains and then kind of meet halfway from the sensory input.

And it's fascinating because...

There's this quote I think I saw in one of your videos about how the eyes only see what the mind is ready to comprehend.

Something like that.

And in many ways, perception, like we can only perceive certain things to a degree our nervous system will allow or make space for.

And so from within the headset, the analogy of like our perception is very limited.

Aldous Huxley's reducing valve analogy of our brain being able to kind of look through reality as if it's

like through a straw, so we're not overwhelmed by the amount of energy and stimulus that's possibly available to us.

There are countless millions of bits of information floating around us, very few of which we actually have conscious perception of in any given moment.

So reality is way more vast than we can perceive in any given moment.

We know that.