Donald Hoffman

Most of our preconceived conceptions are deeply wrong.

We thought the Earth was flat.

We thought the Earth was the center of the universe.

We thought space and time were fundamental.

wrong wrong wrong wrong so so you were batting poorly so so anything that even for if we think that consciousness will survive death what we think about that

The way we think about it is probably wrong.

And so what we have to do is again be – so that's why I'm being – when I say we're in deep waters here and I'm being very, very careful, it's – these are things that my theory – our theory suggests.

But I don't want to be at all doctrinaire.

I think what I should do is make bold proposals.

But they're just proposals.

And the goal is to be precise so we can figure out where the proposals are wrong.

So, yeah.

So in that spirit, yeah, near-death experiences may have some good data about transitions out of this interface in that spirit.

Yeah, there are some commonalities.

There's a lot of reports of going through a tunnel, a light tunnel.

I think Ray Moody or something like that is famous for categorizing a lot of the similarities in near-death experiences.

A life review.

And then, of course, the reports we have are of people who came back, so then they came back and so forth.

So there are...

But there are also some that report, you know, horrific.