Annaka Harris
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1,467 appearances
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Apr 2025
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It's hard for me to know because I disagree with a lot of his terminology.
Well, I mean, the truth is that, I mean, if you talk to a neuroscientist like Anil Seth, and I would say most neuroscientists, but he's really good on this subject, and his...
expertise in his area of focus is in perception.
So he talks a lot about how our perceptions give us an experience of the world, and he calls it a controlled hallucination.
I'm sorry, he probably got, I think he says that he got that term from someone else, but that's the term he uses.
Right.
There's a sense in which what Hoffman is saying is already, we already know to be the case.
So our brains are creating this conscious experience based on these interactions with the outside world.
It is in some sense all a controlled hallucination.
And someone like Anil Seth, from the neuroscientific point of view, I actually have a quote here somewhere if you have any interest in hearing the quote.
But he's essentially saying, everything we experience as a perception...
including our experience of time and space.
So we still don't really know what our experience of space represents out there in the world.
And then, of course, when you talk to physicists about the different interpretations of quantum mechanics, I mean, where physics seems to
beheaded across the board at this point is that space and time are emergent, that they're not part of the fundamental fabric of reality.
And so there's some ways in which Don is saying things that- Is he being too poetic about it?
Well... No, it's not.
He's saying something more than that.
But my point is that a lot of what he's already saying, on some level, science is already there and could agree with.
Yeah.
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