Donald Hoffman

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

So Galileo was put in house arrest by the Catholic Church.

So there's been this antipathy between science and spirituality at the very birth of modern science with Galileo.

And so the two have diverged.

Science went off and studied our headset.

They thought they were studying objective reality, but it turned out space-time is just our headset.

So science has spent the last several hundred years developing incredible tools, clean, clear observation, very precise observation, followed by clean mathematical representations of the experimental reality.

results, and then mathematics that predicts new experiments.

That virtuous cycle of observation, mathematical theories, very, very clean.

That hasn't existed at all in that mathematical precision in the spiritual traditions.

And as a result,

The spiritual traditions have had the deep insight about consciousness.

But if you look at the history of spirituality, there's been lots of gobbledygook as well.

There's been a lot of nonsense.

There's been absolute nuggets of truth, and it's been covered in lots of nonsense.

So what we need is the best of both.

We need the absolute rigor...

precision of observation and mathematical rigor of our logic from the scientific side, plus the recognition from the spiritual side that consciousness, not space time, is fundamental and put those two together.

Then I think humanity is off to the races.

We will understand our spiritual nature.

We will get rid of all the nasty gobbledygook that has really enslaved a lot of people.

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