André Duqum

who we are and the life that we create.

So when I say the term, your brain constructs your reality, what comes to mind?

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I love green tea.

I think is a great entry point, which for many people is like the red pill in the matrix.

You know, you start to take, OK, I want to see what reality actually is or start to understand the difference between what I experience and what is what it is.

And the Truman Show also, when you start to wake up to how everything is constructed and it's kind of the status quo and everyone's walking around with these prior assumptions and beliefs that just become pervasive.

But

Starting even just with the visual systems across the animal kingdom, right?

Not even just within humans are we different, but what is it like within the conscious experience of an octopus, right?

Or a dolphin or bats that use echolocation and snakes and the mantis shrimp, which has way more cones of color than we, that we ever have had.

And it's fascinating because it's like, okay, we're all, and we've had Donald Hoffman on, who's a consciousness researcher on the show.

And he kind of has spent a lot, like many years exploring the different ways in which our visual systems are created for survival adaptation and not to actually see reality as it is.

And it's actually the percentage chance that we would is precisely 0%.

And so that is like sometimes a bit destabilizing, but also kind of freeing.

It's like the red pill into this doorway of seeing life as it actually can be.

A few other thinkers in this space, you know, Anil Seth, who talks about how we kind of hallucinate reality.

Yeah.

Controls hallucination.

Andy Clark, who has the experience machine serving uncertainty, talks about how we don't just filter and perceive reality.