Donald Hoffman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's what it says.
Yeah.
I think that that idea is, is, um, can't be dismissed out of hand.
I think it's a very interesting idea and I don't have a better one right now.
So, so yes, it, the, it feels to me like, um,
I'm not my body.
My body is just an avatar.
If you're in virtual reality – You do feel that.
Well, I think that.
I'll say that.
I'm very much attached to my body.
And if something hurt my body, I would be panicked and so forth.
So I don't feel like I'm not my body.
Absolutely.
But when I'm thinking intellectually and coolly about things –
If something actually happens to me if I'm in a car wreck, it's a different story.
But just thinking intellectually about it, and maybe if I meditated more, I would actually feel that way, but I don't.
But just intellectually, it seems...
I don't know.
Would I?