Donald Hoffman

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The School of Greatness · The Math Says You've Never Seen Reality | Donald Hoffman · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

But I think

Ultimately, my own view about things is that reality infinitely transcends space and time.

You are that reality.

And in some sense, you, your consciousness, is just choosing to look through an infinite number of headsets.

So there's a Lewis headset and a Don headset.

And this one consciousness is having a conversation with itself between two headsets and enjoying and learning.

So it's almost like the one consciousness views itself from an infinite number of perspectives, chooses to put on an infinite number of headsets and enjoy that perspective, maybe get lost in it, completely identify with it.

feel pain feel joy you know the whole range of emotions discoveries and so forth get completely lost in it and then slowly wake up and realize oh that was just a headset and boy did i learn a lot from that perspective and and um and now it's time to there's an infinite number of other headsets to go and try out so would you say that there is no reality there's just perspective of what we're experiencing

Yeah, I would say that you are reality.

You in silence.

Not any story you tell.

Any story you tell about yourself is not you.

You are much, much deeper.

So whatever you are is that which can entertain any story, every story, enjoy it, and then not identify with it and let it go.

So whatever you are is infinitely beyond any headset, but you are looking at yourself through an infinite number of different perspectives.

Well, I think what we're doing is we're playing a role and we're learning a perspective on who we are.

And it's interesting that consciousness seems to be willing to just go in with both feet.

I'm just going to go in there and lose myself.

I really transcend all this.

But to really understand this perspective on this, I'm going to be a five-year-old kid in a sandbox.

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