Tim Ferriss

What is going on?

I don't know.

I mean, it would certainly seem to imply that

not all of our perception, access, or experience to reality is mediated by.

something local i i mean like a gate like maybe it is although maybe it is i mean i mean there are people within the exploration of psychedelics uh who think of the uh the mind more like a receiver right so it's like yeah you can damage the brain and cause tremendous dysfunction right you can do that for sure

But maybe that's not because the brain itself is generating something, much like a television screen.

Like, the television screen isn't generating the images you're watching.

It's a receiver of some type.

At least back in the day, for those people who were old enough.

And... at the same time, you have documented cases of people with minimal brain volume, right?

Like, their brains should not function, and yet they have average IQ.

And we don't really have, as far as I know, a good explanatory framework for allowing that to be possible.

So I don't know.

I mean, this is part of the reason why my position is always,

kind of impossible until proven otherwise, but I'm open-minded about it.

And that's why I've poured so, I mean, millions of dollars into science, right?

Because I'm like, I want to better understand this.

I recognize, as Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist said, like, it is important not to fool yourself, and you're the most, you're the easiest person to fool.

Like, when you want something to be true, even if it's 1%, like, experimenter bias and everything, it's a real thing.

You'll convince yourself that it's, yeah.