I used to wonder if the objects in my house existed when I was away; now I'm wondering if they exist when I'm at home.

@The678error

2 жыл бұрын

well, someday you will wonder if you even exist

@barnaliadhikary9421

2 жыл бұрын

I doubt whether I exist while the objects in my house existed and whether you exist while I existed🙄🙄

@jyjt2903

2 жыл бұрын

In sleep I stop to exist.

@MattBurosh

2 жыл бұрын

That's so funny! Whenever I come back from vacation, I always ponder the idea of, "Did all of my crap just sit here in silence for thousands of seconds on end, just awaiting my return to make them real again??" Obviously, the answer is yes, but it's fun to think about!

@JudeMalachi

2 жыл бұрын

@@jyjt2903 Is this really true? It's not true for me, but I would assert that's only because I've developed metacognitive introspective awareness through Samatha meditation. I would also assert that you don't cease to exist so much as your awareness becomes so dull that it doesn't really form substantial memories and you're simply unaware of your existence while you sleep after you’ve awoken.

I love that science is trying to tackle consciousness and reality now.

@jefferyjames6842

2 жыл бұрын

It always was ment to be tackled

@iamthew0lf

2 жыл бұрын

@@jefferyjames6842 It’s always been a theological or philosophical discussion. Science has always been the study of the tangible physical realm.

@Serenitylovelightpeace

2 жыл бұрын

Love the wolf 💜

@boxingbarbarians

2 жыл бұрын

It's not a case of "now". They always have been

@twilighttraveler8739

2 жыл бұрын

Science is the study of mathematics as it appears in a static equation and it therefore called “ a theory with or without a meaningful answer “. Philosophy is the actuality of reality as we see and perceive it as through multiple mirrors of consciousness. We can discuss philosophical musings and mathematical equations until the cows come home - £5.00 and a cup of Cappuccino and we are on our way to the very next coffee house revolution!

If my perception is real, this was a fascinating TED talk. Loved it!

@alichiffra6455

Жыл бұрын

Your perception was subjectively tuned to find it fascinating. It is because of your cognitive and intuitive ability to understand the linguistic symbolism of the Ted Talk. And it was pleasurable to your brain because your brain specifically has been trained to find pleasure in higher intellectual interest and interaction. The same talk wouldn't appeal to someone who is intellectually inferior.

@semisikaufusi2467

Жыл бұрын

I agree, reality is fluid…but FIT trumps all

@vz4779

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for making me smile.

@daheikkinen

Жыл бұрын

It was an illusion.

@skatedraco182

Жыл бұрын

It was cool but not real lmao

Each and every person that ever existed has had a unique perspective of every moment of their existence. Even two people in the back of the crowd in this video sitting side by side, their view is almost identical just the smallest degree of difference but the difference does exist. Now if my first sentence is true then as our reality is based on our perspective we have to see that each and every person has had their own absolutely unique reality. So now we arrive at the thought that when we look at a society we are seeing a galaxy of realities all of them separate and unique. So when we say that someone is mentally ill because they have suffered a break from reality, then the question must be whose reality?

@dismalthoughts

Жыл бұрын

The one that we jointly agree on. Like you said, 2 people sitting in the audience have only a minor difference in perspective. If you asked them, they would probably both agree that they saw Donald Hoffman giving a talk. Everyone there would. So anyone who saw Donald Duck giving a talk probably ought to see a doctor, because that level of disagreement with the majority vote on reality could be anything from a whimsical way to experience reality to a minor nuisance to a huge hindrance navigating reality to a terminal brain tumor.

@s.muller8688

Ай бұрын

There can only be a collective consciousness. Unless we create every single thought on the basics of an original idea. Which is not the case.

@jeanneelliott7243

6 күн бұрын

Psychosis occurs for beings who are disassociated from the common reality. Common reality is a group experience. The largest group who agrees on the experience is not considered psychotic. Crazy?!

@TheGilmourJones

5 күн бұрын

@@jeanneelliott7243 And unfortunately common reality can be manipulated. Political, religious, etc….

He was my first year and favorite professor at UCI in 2008. :)

@extremeweather1115

3 жыл бұрын

Taha Babikir Who said it does?

@TheGreatAlan75

3 жыл бұрын

@@tahababikir1577 don't act like I'm the bad guy. You took a neutral statement and said something negative and annoying. You just don't appreciate me pointing it out. Maybe you should just STFU

@TheGreatAlan75

3 жыл бұрын

It doesn't make you great !!!!!

@TheGreatAlan75

3 жыл бұрын

@@tahababikir1577 you are correct... I'm a hypocrite. Sorry

@davidblack5527

3 жыл бұрын

@BMW Kingz, you're really lucky.

The reality we see is not matter, it is “what matters”

@mykhailohohol8708

4 жыл бұрын

he broke your brain didn't he

@paulcunnane4

4 жыл бұрын

That's pretty good dude!

@cohenccc

4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@azalm1126

4 жыл бұрын

12 rules for life eh?

@TJ-kk5zf

4 жыл бұрын

exactly!!!

We only see a very small amount in the visual spectrum, there are frequencies in the audio spectrum we can't hear as well,there you go.They have proved that photons ,which is light,behaves differently when observerd with the human eye,that is mind blowing.

@dallasburgess5329

Ай бұрын

Yeah, dogs and cats can see further on the spectrum than we can. We can see our spectrum level clearer and more vivid than they can, but they see more of 'reality' than we do.🤯

The Universe is a vast consciousness, and we are all connected individual parts of this consciousness. We cannot see this while we are going through the human experience, but when we 'move-on' (die), that's when our perceptions expand and the blinkers come off, so we experience reality as it is. That's my take. Keeps me sane while going through this insane human experience 😃

@Casperdghost618

Жыл бұрын

I agree with this, it also eliminates status, for I am no different to you and no different to a snake a rock or a tree. All things in the universe have equal value.

@undercoveragent9889

Жыл бұрын

"The Universe is a vast consciousness, and we are all connected individual parts of this consciousness." "We cannot see this while we are going through the human experience, but when we 'move-on' (die), that's when our perceptions expand and the blinkers come off, so we experience reality as it is." Do you people actually ever think about what you post? Ever? For how long have you been dead? You are telling us what you see whilst claiming that only dead people can see what you see.

@grebulon9558

Жыл бұрын

Undercover Agent: What you see, hear, smell, feel, taste. Do you think this is all there is? I hope not. We are conditioned from birth, in western society in particular, to be logical and obedient, relying utterly on our five senses for our beliefs. Enables 'the powers that be' to pretty-much programme us into certain patterns of behaviour. And wow, does it work! I believe that there is more to life. No, I'm not relgious. But yes, I have had 'contacts' from people who have, as I put it, 'moved on'. Impossible to describe in words. But very definite, very real, and yes, a bit 'hairy' the first time! There is so much that is deliberately not taught to us about life, so that most of us close our minds to the possibilities. We we can do, is to try not to be so programmed and conditioned, that we stand no viewpoint other than that proferred by our five senses. We are more than the sum of our parts.

@undercoveragent9889

Жыл бұрын

@@grebulon9558 "Do you think this is all there is? I hope not." No and that's my point. Remembering, thinking, talking, learning as _well_ as our senses inform us about the world around us. It is clear that the organic matter between the ears plays a part in the _quality_ of the consciousness. I mean, someone with a degree in physics will have functional differences to the consciousness of someone living in a mud-hut in sub-Saharan Africa, right? "There is so much that is deliberately not taught to us about life, so that most of us close our minds to the possibilities." I agree but _knowing_ that does set you on a path to truth, if you really want it. Knowing you have been misled at least gives you the opportunity to set about challenging your assumptions. It causes you to be more critical, more thorough; wiser. "No, I'm not relgious. But yes, I have had 'contacts' from people who have, as I put it, 'moved on'." I have a real problem with doublets like this. How can one accept the existence of some supernatural realm _and_ reject religion? I think that a supernatural realm is a prerequisite for religion and obviously, the supernatural realm is a prerequisite for your position too so to me, your position has all the hallmarks of a variation on the theme of some religion. But let me ask you this in good faith: you already said that we are deliberately not taught about life. I took you to mean by that that you think that many of the people around want to see us fail and that although they do not have your interests at heart, they act as if they do and lead you down false paths... or something _like_ that... Well, why should you trust the advice from a supernatural realm any more than you would trust advice from the material world? I mean, how can you be sure that those on 'the other side' have your best interests at heart? Maybe they have been forced to misinform you by some devilish spirit that despises all of mankind? How can you _test_ the quality of the information you receive from such a source without resorting to a 'religious-type' faith? "We are more than the sum of our parts." Yes, we are. :)

@grebulon9558

Жыл бұрын

You make some interesting points, Undercover Agent. Regarding 'the afterlife' - if we can call it that: Personally, I see no requirement to be religious in order to believe in the afterlife. Einstein said he believed in the afterlife, because of energy. Energy can relay, it can transform, but it cannot just cease. So when we 'die' our energy has to go somewhere. I'm with Einstein on this one! As an aside: ever seen a film called 'Powder' starring Sean Patrick Flannery and Jeff Goldblum? Fiction, of course, but most engaging. Gets the brain-gears cranking Re what happens when a person 'dies'. Great film, I think. Speaking of objectivity vs subjectivity: as everyone perceives the World subjectively, through their five senses, maybe absolutely everything is subjective (?) Not that I'll try walking in front of a bus to test this out (!), but you get my general point. Perhaps we are nothing more than the memories we keep. Perhaps Elon Musk is right, thinking we live in a simulation. Who knows! Something strange happpened with the two Voyager probes when they 'left' the Solar System, that's for sure. Evolution: If we are evolved from apes... why are there still apes? The concept of infinity: We can't grasp it. If the universe has a boundary, what is after that boundary? People believe in 'The Big Bang', that the universe was once infinitely small. How, in any way, is that possible?!?!? I think it is good to question everything. Just not all the time (!) And don't expect too many answers, just more questions, and an increasingly open mind. I cannot think that this World is all there is. The human race is just clearly insane, and some of the most insane are at the top of the pyramid power structure. War games, anyone? I saw a comment online recently that made me laugh but I found quite accurate: "We now basically live in a Clown Society, where we are constantly punched in the face and told it's for our own health." A final thought: Socrates: To be is to do. Sartre: To do is to be. Sinatra: Do be do be do. I'm with Sinatra 😆

"enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true." - Adyashanti.

@rbert16000

7 жыл бұрын

Is it not true that fire burns? Of course it is.. But if a person puts his hand over a flame, does the fire burn his hand or does the person burn his hand?

@BiophysicalChemist

6 жыл бұрын

Rick Bertino It is not the hand that burns, but the Mind.

@Fuar11

5 жыл бұрын

@@rbert16000 both

@MrAkosFintor

4 жыл бұрын

That’s dead on!

@yojimbos1

4 жыл бұрын

"Knowledge of the Big Picture is not conducive to happiness". Some French Philosopher at least as impenetrable as this Ted Talk.

The fact that we have no real clue what reality really is amazes me. So much could be out there that we just can’t perceive

@kuri190

2 жыл бұрын

Some do know though... But most dont listen to those who know as they dismiss it as bs...

@kuri190

2 жыл бұрын

Some know the complete Truth, the problem is sharing it with others because others are sucked in the matrix and delusion

@wakeup5998

2 жыл бұрын

Where should I start looking in your opinion?

@kuri190

2 жыл бұрын

@@wakeup5998 inform yourself a bit about spirituality and non duality! There are a lot of fake gurus and those who speak from beliefs so beware!

@Nanette_DeCardenas

2 жыл бұрын

Best way to know reality is the Blind / Deaf man.

The more I listen to hoffman the more sense he makes. This subject is insane and fascinating and also a accurate description. This makes total sense when you think about it and look at physics

@chetsenior7253

Жыл бұрын

Physics is a ghost that we all believe in.

@NickyHornaday-cu1zz

Жыл бұрын

​@@chetsenior7253😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

@TheGuiltsOfUs

Жыл бұрын

No it does not.

@ajahnpadawan8812

Жыл бұрын

I can get and understand the basics of this model. However I struggle to understand the personal feelings beyond. Eg how/why are there people we feel a spiritual connection with but others who mean nothing?

@i3cq

Жыл бұрын

There's a shrimp with more color receptors, and me as a colorblind with less, we see different than nomral people do. So we have different views of reality just with colors, but they are still our reality. When you play a game, you dont look at the code, but just because the code makes you see something it doesnt make that something not real. It is more like a representation, so that instead of you having to understand the code, you can simply look at it and quickly understand it. All of this is real, we just dont see the "code" behind it

I thought of the same metaphor years ago, calling reality an interface, just like the interface of a computer. Time & space is like the desktop, objects are like the icons & physics is like the rules governing the interaction between the icons & desktop. What's powering the interface of our reality? The code of consciousness. It's like a quantum supercomputer, taking every possible position simultaneously. It's quite surreal to hear the exact analogy used by someone else years later. I also see dreams like metaphors for how the illusion of life could be created. We each dream, create our own universes with their own rules of physics somehow, the characters within your dream all think they are separate, yet they stem from one mind. Your subconscious creates situations & fractals of itself to learn about itself & grow in a sort of sandbox environment. Imagine a mind much more powerful than ours. Instead of running 8-18 characters at once in a dream, it can run 8-800 trillion characters at once. It would also mean the entire dream world is conscious in that it is composed of thought, albeit at different levels of consciousness depending on their level of awareness of being. A person character in the dream is more conscious than a rock, yet at a certain level of growth, which appears to be one of the fundamental guiding principles, the character person realises they are an avatar, an interface for the source mind, expressing itself through you. At which point they could simultaneously have an existential crisis, a sense of solitude as not many others in their virtual world understands them, a sense of awe in the beauty of the illusion & a sense of comfort in the unknown. We are the universe experiencing itself in order to grow & learn from experience. It is likely there are many parallel universes & forms of sentience in other dimensions. it would mean the separation is all an illusion. That everyone is truly interconnected on a conscious level.

@TheGuiltsOfUs

Жыл бұрын

This solipsistic idea is debunked by the universal experience of every human.

@leafyleafyleaf

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for that interesting comment! You have given it a lot of thought. I find a lot of freedom in not being tied to this physical existence. But I figure I am here to fulfill some end, so I will do my part and live my life until its natural end. Who knows, maybe each of us is an individual trial in some cosmic Monte Carlo simulation.

I'm about a minute in and can already tell I'm gonna have to watch this more than once.

@birdieperchy4501

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Block Anyone else doing it for psych homework? I have to write a paper on this stupid thing. And why is psych so freaking SUBJECTIVE?

@Aliens-Are-Our-Friends2027

4 жыл бұрын

also going to have to try 1g of magic mushrooms and contemplate

@supercoolsam1159

4 жыл бұрын

have you tried psychedelics ?

@nfrench2100

4 жыл бұрын

Birdie Perchy how old are you now? I’d like to know how you feel about this today

@blacktortoise6812

4 жыл бұрын

His theory is wack. It jumps the shark and says reality is nothing like what we perceive. And that consciousness is like a little sandbox world. That we imagine up or something?

This is probably the best TED talk I watched in my life.

@epsomvince5950

2 жыл бұрын

You really need to get out more....!!!

@LocChicago5

2 жыл бұрын

I forgot the name but there is one about mushrooms and how everything in the world is connected to mushrooms and how we can use mushrooms to eat away nuclear waist and use mushrooms to heal are body or mushrooms to trip out there is mushrooms for everything

@petergedd9330

2 жыл бұрын

@@LocChicago5 There's not mushroom in my apartment

@counterculture10

2 жыл бұрын

It was indeed excellent!

@moondawwg

2 жыл бұрын

No mames tampoco es para tanto mi chato.

I have always felt that we as humans have always been like blind worms wiggling around the belly of the universe not really capable of perceiving reality as it is but only perceiving in a way that helps us narrowingly survive to reproduce. But what Hoffman is positing is so much more deeper, and shocking.

@onknee

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like decay! If it’s the belly of the Universe, we are the maggots festering in the corpse shell of its former ego.

@elijahballinger8

7 ай бұрын

@@onkneehow?

@onknee

7 ай бұрын

@@elijahballinger8 Well, what does death mean to you?

I will be watching this again. One of the best TED Talks I have watched to date!

@raftemmerman765

Жыл бұрын

I'm writing everything down and printing it. I have my folder with all my printed, interesting text from all kind of videos and webpages, totally recommend!

13:40 "Evolution has shaped us with perception symbols", "We should take them seriously but not literally" Nicely put

@forthfarean

4 жыл бұрын

vjnt1star Damn clever this evolution.

@roiferreach100

4 жыл бұрын

Evolution is the tool to understand the real God.

@Greeneyes3005

3 жыл бұрын

Nemo of Erewhon yeah it’s so clever... some need glasses to see!!! Hmmmmm? 🤔🤓🤓

@ErikAdalbertvanNagel

3 жыл бұрын

@@roiferreach100 god is not real, only exist in your head and those who believe in a supernatural creator being

@sharonbutchart1502

3 жыл бұрын

Thank the mushroom for our smarts 😜

_"Reality, a user friendly interface."_ Intriguing thinking.

@truedeadandlife

9 жыл бұрын

It is true, we design the world around to fit our needs. We have our perception as our UI and keep optimizing the space around us.

@Ral9284

9 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Matrix!

@raymadein6969

9 жыл бұрын

More like welcome to the universe.

@matthewbarnes7029

9 жыл бұрын

More like just welcome....

@holleey

9 жыл бұрын

Ral Crux it's so user friendly that we lose ourselves in it.

I can't still fully wrap my head around the topic but I am mind blown. I think this is the best ted talk I have watched so far.

@tieref7432

Жыл бұрын

This is how reality is my friend, we're all the same, no one is better than someone else, there is no ego, i am u, u are me, we are everything, we are the universe, in a sense, we are reality, but as alan watts once said, reality cannot be explained by words, it can only be experienced

@percanatord3461

Жыл бұрын

@@tieref7432 exactly spot on we're all family of consciousness we're literally a tiny grain of sand in the universe your body is just a vessel that your borrowing until it's your time to give it back

@mariusloveless7880

Жыл бұрын

@@percanatord3461 Fascinating to think about really. I firmly KNOW that we are each other, we are an expanse of the same "thing", we are not even a certain being or object exclusively, we are not together a formation of a particular thing, but actually we are just the same exact singular "thing" that is. You, I, that other person, the Earth, Sun , Stars, and the Moon, we are just "it" being, we are little "it's" being "IT". This is profound and brings amazing realizations about God or the idea of God. The Christian Bible is a book that seems to be a book FAR too complicated for religious people to even grasp, the more I research and study it. I think we did get ahold of a concept of God in that book but Christians completely got it wrong and shaped it into this story that makes "sense" to them. I say all this because in the Bible God clearly says, that its name is "I Am", no other name, it just states "I AM". So, Ancient desert dwelling men interpreted that statement as "God" saying its name, this was a failure of perception of reality by Man. I think what actually happened was, WE, YOU, ME, US, simply told ourselves that WE ARE, thusly saying to us, "I AM", we don't ask ourselves our name, we already know who we are, We are and if asked such an absurd question, even more absurdly positing that absurd question to our own self we would have no other answer to ourselves than well, "I AM". We asked our self, "Who are you?", and we answered to our self, "I AM"......and that's just Christianity.....Buddhism, Hinduism and other philosophies have their own clues and evidence that we are all one "thing" .

@tvv2281

Жыл бұрын

@@mariusloveless7880 You put it way more eloquently than I ever could have, but this is exactly the conclusion I came to the other day.

@paula19335

Жыл бұрын

​@@tieref7432 your comment gived me goosebumps because I know is true.. I am you.. you are me.. we are everything and we are nothing.. all at once. SF is nothing compared to 'reality'

This is definitely going forward! I cannot share my experiences without arousing doubts from others that these experiences aren't "hallucinations". If you open to the never ending science you leave the cozy but dark world of ordinary consciousness

@to2burger

Жыл бұрын

Well said

@mukhtarh5435

Жыл бұрын

Care to elaborate

@caroldelosangeles3621

Жыл бұрын

Same happened to me. Well said👏

@thisisme5487

Жыл бұрын

I'd still like to hear some of what you're talking about. It's built into us for the most part to not be able to believe others' experiences that dwell outside the realm of the normally/daily perceived, and even experiencing things yourself might not be able to break that mold. But the more you subject yourself to it whether through personal experience or hearing others' exeriences that may relate to your own, the more you fit the pieces together. I like to think of our perceptions as incomplete puzzles. We all have one, and they're all relatively the same size and design. But, each of us has certain pieces that others might not have, and without sharing the needed information to acquire that piece, it's that much more difficult to truly complete our own.

@vdub6343

Жыл бұрын

Check out Descartes’ Meditations on the First Philosophy (1 and 2 are the only relavent ones here) for his demon deceiver argument. As far as I can tell, pretty much every modern philosopher agrees that agrees that we can’t Truly know anything other than that there is a thing that thinks. But acting like “you” are literally the only thing that exists (not what Descartes claims, btw) is wildly impractical. Taking solipsism too seriously is a terrible way to go about things.

A quote from the movie 'Bull Durham' Susan Sarandon 'Annie' comes to mind ..."The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness..."

@raymukhtar6806

3 жыл бұрын

without self awareness your intelligence will turn on itself, so good luck

@markgray2962

2 жыл бұрын

@@raymukhtar6806 The opposite is the case I think.

@MikeMike-nf1jy

Жыл бұрын

Old movie yet u bring a quote from it

Genes are a miracle too. The idea that knowledge can be passed down for generations inside a tiny particle with no brain is amazing

@danroux4010

2 жыл бұрын

It took a long time to discover the gene responsible for shyness because it was hiding behind a bunch of other genes.

@sabbracadabra8367

2 жыл бұрын

@@danroux4010 hahah :D

@Yo1shadyfan

2 жыл бұрын

Similar concept is 'memes' i.e. social ideas spreading and evolving using humans without any regard for them.

@carriagereturned3974

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yo1shadyfan egregor, "energetic" being, humans are just hosts. "memes" are not ideas (ideas of what?!), but informational entities.

@amnon460

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the idea that knowledge can be passed down for generations inside a tiny particle with no brain is as amazing as it is demonstrably false. Genes are mostly responsible for protein coding. The big hopes genetic sequencing seemed to deliver turned out as vapor causing the huge investments done in this direction to yield little to no return.

I once told a friend who had "moved to Sydney", that I was was coming to visit in two days, so they better get busy building or unpacking it from boxes or whatever it is "they" do when I explore a new area. I must admit they did a pretty good job.

What I understand from this is that we have all evolved as humans to see reality in a similar way (albeit with some differences, for example some people are colour blind, yet they still see in the same way, just without colour). Its like he points to, if we saw the complexity of reality as it really was it would be too much information to take in. I too love that science is now starting to look in this direction.

@kuuluna

6 ай бұрын

It probably shattered a lot of our beliefs and everything else

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite" - William Blake

@colagirl765

3 жыл бұрын

Mmm

@bitphr3ak

3 жыл бұрын

@@colagirl765 - things that make you go "Mmm"!

So intriguing and thought provoking. So glad there are intelligent people out there that can go through that thought process and science without freaking out. A lot of people just simply won't go there because it crushes our perception of reality and that can be very damaging to some people, a lot of people.

@ChrisJones-ll3zc

2 жыл бұрын

I damaged myself quite a bit the other day. I almost had a panic attack. This is actually a heavy realization and it’s almost criminal to share with anyone. I came to the realization that nothing in reality actually has a purpose or meaning and it was terrifying

@IAn0nI

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisJones-ll3zc the beauty of that realisation that life is objectively meaningless means that you are free to choose and interpret it's meaning! It's all relative. It's all perception.

@stunnedmulletblah9714

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisJones-ll3zc try God, you might be surprised. He's knocking now

@ChrisJones-ll3zc

Жыл бұрын

@@IAn0nI I can’t agree but still you’re 100% right

@ChrisJones-ll3zc

Жыл бұрын

@@stunnedmulletblah9714 sure 🙄

Immanuel Kant and Plato were geniuses. We don’t see reality as it really is but instead visualize ideas that are easy for our mind to understand, then all that we perceive are just symbols representing the true world. For example, Native speakers of Japanese find it difficult to distinguish between the sounds of the letters l and r whereas native speakers of English find those sounds to be completely different. This kind of thing is a regular source of difficulty for people learning a new language. It happens because, once one has learned a language, your brain categorizes sounds into groupings that are meaningful for a given language and totally ignores sound differences that are unimportant for that language. L and r aren’t different in Japanese so there is no need for Japanese people to learn how to distinguish between them. Hoffman’s theory certainly describes how the sense of smell works. We don’t perceive odors as belong to chemical types (hydroxyl, ketone, aldehyde, unsaturated, etc.) . Instead we perceive categories like fruity, floral, pungent, rotten, etc. Color is another example. Light is a continuous spectrum but our minds perceive discontinuous colors. It is hard to say whether other aspects of vision work this way. It is very unsettling to think that we don’t see the world as it is.

@paulocardoso7472

Жыл бұрын

Read your comment and went to explore more of that relationship between Hoffman's ideas and Kant/Plato theories with the help of GPT-4. I first asked if it knew this presentation, to which it replied yes and gave me a very accurate description of Hoffman's TED Talk. Then, I asked about similarities between Hoffman's perspective and the theories of Plato and Kant, I'll leave the answer it gave me here: (GPT-4 answer) Donald Hoffman's perspective shares some similarities with the ideas of both Plato and Immanuel Kant, two influential philosophers who also questioned the nature of reality and the limits of human perception. Plato's Allegory of the Cave: In this allegory, Plato describes a group of people who are chained inside a cave since birth, facing a blank wall. Their only source of information about the world comes from the shadows cast on the wall by objects and figures outside the cave. The prisoners eventually mistake these shadows for reality itself. When one prisoner is freed and discovers the outside world, he realizes the limitations of his previous perception. Plato uses this allegory to illustrate that our perceptions might not fully represent the true nature of reality, and that there could be a higher level of understanding or reality beyond what we directly perceive. Hoffman's ideas resonate with Plato's allegory because both suggest that our perceptions do not provide a direct and accurate representation of reality. Instead, they argue that what we perceive is a simplified, shadow-like version of the underlying truth. Immanuel Kant's Phenomena and Noumena: Kant made a distinction between two aspects of reality - phenomena and noumena. Phenomena are the things that we can perceive and experience through our senses, which are subject to the constraints of our cognitive faculties. Noumena, on the other hand, represent the true nature of reality as it exists independently of our perception. According to Kant, we cannot have direct knowledge of noumena because our cognitive faculties and senses limit our understanding of the world. Hoffman's perspective aligns with Kant's ideas in that both emphasize the limitations of human perception in grasping the true nature of reality. While Hoffman uses the metaphor of a user interface to describe our perception, Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena serves a similar purpose, highlighting the difference between what we perceive and the objective reality that exists beyond our perception. In summary, both Plato and Kant's ideas share similarities with Hoffman's perspective in that all three challenge the notion that our perceptions provide a direct and accurate representation of reality, emphasizing the limitations of human perception and the possible existence of a more fundamental reality beyond our immediate experience

Everybody is saying Kant this, Budda that, and they said this many years ago, and he is re-describing it now. Yes he isn't saying anything new HOWEVER, He is Scientifically trying to prove what they said. This is a breakthrough in science.

Some studies say that schizophrenia patients are less likely to be fooled by visual illusions than others. Maybe schizophrenia patients are having some sort of information overflow due to lack of construction capabilities of brain, not connecting sensations with their meaning and mixing signals coming from their mind with their sensations. Some sort of inability to create strong neural pathways. On the other hand this weakness could be the cause for creativity. Finding loose logical connections between things that are not usually thought to be connected with each other. After all the difference between a genius and madness is said to be fine line.

@TS-hw7ro

3 жыл бұрын

I dont think there is a line

@softgoodsint

3 жыл бұрын

@@TS-hw7ro= Good comments, and call me crazy, but the way I know there is said line is that I've spent my life on the wrong side of it

@Superdisco199

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, sometimes I think mental illness could be ill attempts to process information others can't sense/perceive or maybe more simply put - a faulty connection to the matrix :-D Interface theory is like other astrophysics theories that there are more dimensions and connections than we can perceive and some of us may have evolved slightly differently.

@eriksantos418

2 жыл бұрын

I recently learned of a story that happened in Brazil... an elderly woman was hired to take care of a couple's baby daughter (she is schizophrenic) one day he was cooking pork in the oven, the father came home and realized that his daughter was gone, he found her...

@viewfinder1801

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with your analysis. It is like altering the name of the computer file on the desktop. If the brain expects one thing and gets something completely confusing instead, it must create a narrative to fill in the blanks.

Hands down. This is the best ted talk I've watched so far.

This changed my life for the better, yet I know less and less.

This simply sounds as re-re-discovering some of the well known terms (like conceptual/non- conceptual, the name and the form) from buddhism, hinduism, etc. and translating those -again and again - into the language of science. Another new kind of the same old ferry... which - of course - is not a bad thing, if it helps us to get through that same old river. 👍

All of us are individual rays of sunlight that have each forgotten that we are the sun.

@yoyoyo1penaldo

2 жыл бұрын

Ooops ! That's cooooooool

@masonmartin1464

2 жыл бұрын

Pleeaseeeee elaborate!!

@masonmartin1464

2 жыл бұрын

Sun? That’s why we began worshipping the sun?

@jyjt2903

2 жыл бұрын

Metaphorically speaking we are sun,but afraid to accept,it create a danger to ego i.e. illusory I

@masonmartin1464

2 жыл бұрын

@@jyjt2903 How are we metaphorically The sun?

There have been multiple instances in my life where I realized, "there is reality and it is not at all what I see day to day." It was like seeing something too big for my mind so my mind spit it out. But I saw it.

@world2296

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve had this throughout my life too

@daisy7442

2 жыл бұрын

Touching the life unexpectedly is a complete different quality than exploring it scientifically with the use of the mind. All these talks seem fascinating but do not mean anything at all since it's still a construction of the mind. But that's alright, that what can be done with this limited conciousnes.

@Man_fay_the_Bru

2 жыл бұрын

For example?

@kevinnugent6530

2 жыл бұрын

@@Man_fay_the_Bru I don't have any clearer explanation of what occurred to me.

@MichelleAntonia

2 жыл бұрын

What did you see?

I love his humbleness...in the future Donald Hoffman may be known worldwide for genius

Good talk. I think it is fascinating, what out reality really is.

My love for neuroscience is unmatched. The fact that we perceive things that they are not as literally as we see them, still buffles me. It also draws me to the question, is life simply an illusion?

@tanishksingh8285

2 жыл бұрын

No,life is not an illusion but our physical reality is all not there is to reality,also our perception of reality is almost accurate. People act like it is so inaccurate when it isn't.

@treich1234

2 жыл бұрын

Life itself is not an illusion but our perceptions of it sure can be

@tanishksingh8285

2 жыл бұрын

@@treich1234 yeah you are right.

@xenphoton5833

Жыл бұрын

@@tanishksingh8285 what is reality

@dismalthoughts

Жыл бұрын

@@tanishksingh8285 Depends on how you look at it, I guess. Physics tells us space is mostly empty and there is no physical matter -- only energy. That's not what we perceive. And at the very least, our perception is terribly incomplete. We only see

This is one of the best TED talks of all time. It's so simple but mind boggling to realize.

@hahaipokedyouoel483

Жыл бұрын

We should be at the top our game if the evolution theory was correct, we just have to look at the mess we’ve created.

@xenphoton5833

Жыл бұрын

@Elias HeronBons how does gravity work?

Great talk. He's actually elaborating Kant's epistemology. We create the "noumena" - the desktop - but he holds out hope that we can find out something about the unknown "dinfgen im sich" - things in themselves that lie behind the icons. He puts me in mind of Carlos Casteneda's description of the "reality" perceived when under the influence of hallucinogens - the ""nagual" of central American native culture.

The biggest thing school ever taught me was “The brain is meant to keep you healthy, not happy.” Visuals often times make us healthy and happy or the exact opposite-and in fact there is nearly a 50/50 chance at all times that the visualization and perception of reality as it is or as we assume it is may help us or harm us. Essentially, to the survival standard of the brain, why would we take that risk, when a safer and more reliable outcome is exactly as he’s explained? That we evolve to not seeing reality as it is and instead only seeing what helps us be healthy?

@ibelieveinpeople

Жыл бұрын

Another aspect to his theory with the “we all see the train that we construct”, based on physical limitations to the eye, there are things that construct it differently to how another person may perceive it. I’m colorblind, and the pink discs behind the cube are more red than they’re (supposedly) meant to be. That’s different than how my parents might see the color or someone with a more severe colorblindness than mine. The brain is fucking incredible.

One of my favorite Ted talks to this day. Outstanding job! This really makes you think

"There is no spoon"

@RibbitHopX

9 жыл бұрын

nedocromil And the cake is a lie.

@Rowlandi11

8 жыл бұрын

nedocromil And don't worry about the vase

@ekmad

8 жыл бұрын

+nedocromil there are four lights!

@lookingfortruth1930

7 жыл бұрын

nedocromil This is so mind blowing! Could you give me all the details, books, or whatever you have that covers the main ideas of our reality and spoon?

@koilamaoh4238

6 жыл бұрын

So in theory " There is no us."

This ted is a scientific explanation of the Non-Dualism in which everything is considered a form of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate reality. When my eyes are closed this ted talk is not a talk but a form of consciousness and when I open my eyes my brain/perception interprets it as a ted talk but in reality it is still the ultimate consciousness.

I love this. Very succinct and in alignment with what I have felt for many years. “Perhaps reality is some vast, interacting network of conscious agents, simple and complex, that cause each others conscious experiences.”

He’s such a great guy. Mild mannered and zero ego

@watherby29

2 жыл бұрын

He spends hours sitting in silence in empty office doing nothing daily ;)

@felonymelody4773

2 жыл бұрын

@@watherby29 Do you know that or is it only in your imagination? ;)

@sonnerlotus1

2 жыл бұрын

@@felonymelody4773 Ive heard him say he meditates several hrs day

@watherby29

2 жыл бұрын

@@felonymelody4773 Yes, he said he sits in an empty room doing literally noting. Not "meditating" per definition, just sitting in silence for hours.

@user-nq5rk7nl8m

2 жыл бұрын

@@felonymelody4773 he said it on theories of everything boss

I spend a really long time watching and rewatching different parts of this video. I got a lot of new, unexpected input. I read/know many different journals/articles about human perception and construction of reality, but I still get this feeling of helplessness when being faced with the possibility of spending my life as a "human beetle", totally unaware of my blindspots in my everyday life, Thank you Donald Hoffman for this talk!

@RussFling

9 жыл бұрын

Merlas Sakari You have 2 blind spots! Where your optical nerve meets up with the retina there are no rods or cones and so you don't receive any actual image data from these spots. They're right in the middle of your visual field, but your brain fills in the gaps.......

@ibis0921

9 жыл бұрын

Russell Fling more than 2 I would think. All of your sensory input could be blind spot. Even reasoning and technology itself could be a blind spot because it could be tuned to further our evolutionary progression. If we ever figure out what reality really is we can't stop using the interface before us but the implications might change the direction of progression.... or not. still very interesting.

@Skweepa

9 жыл бұрын

Merlas Sakari It makes me excited that there is plenty still out there to be discovered. Just like the microscope, we may some day invent a spiritual microscope or other sensory tools that allow us to see beyond our beetle-esque minds. Maybe some day we will wear a metaphorical microscope all day every day...and it will wonderfully and beautifully change the way we perceive and navigate the world. Maybe we'll see alternate dimensions and learn something enlightening from alter-dimensional beings. ...Finding out that you're dreaming isn't depressing, it just means you may one day wake up. ...And you can take this reality a little more lightheartedly.

@osbogosley

9 жыл бұрын

Merlas Sakari I call it park dog duty. Life is our choice, to be surprised. I go out doing what I have learned to do to make my way. The surprises are a welcome tree to pee on.

@teamcoalhapcharcoal

8 жыл бұрын

scrot out

Hi, great lectures, thinking out of the box. Extremely different physics since my BS in 1985. Because the universe is less physical than previously thought with newtonian and relativity physics, anything is possible in this experience of our consciousness that we call life. I would name our reality a "constructed reality". Including what we see and measure is a constructed reality because the instrumentation used is made to evaluate the physical properties of the universe (particle expresions of what really exist at quantum levels). I don't know much about these topics, but everyday I think more that we live a kind of "spiritual" experience in relation to the true nature of the universe.

@edwincupely

Жыл бұрын

@Stephen Crowley this is a time when smart people need to keep quiet so dumb ones don't get offended.

I have always wondered if all the people I pass on the street, shopping in the mall, driving in the cars next to me and even the clouds in the sky existed to others around me or even at all. I have watched both children & pets eyes follow things in the room that I do not see and I have also witnessed my own dogs ears perk up when my ears would start to ring and have yet to understand the correlation of these said experiences. This particular TED has helped me line up many what if, why & hows and I'm truly hoping to one day see what I have been missing all along, even when it was right in front of me or maybe not all!...

@aceventura5398

Жыл бұрын

I think this too. I've been saved from death to many times. I think we all have our own dimension and live to old age in it. But in other dimensions we die at varying ages. These personal dimensions allow for time travel and the Mandela effect. Opening portals allow one to cross over to another's dimension into another time.

@mom_im_losing_it

Жыл бұрын

@@aceventura5398 I’m confused so how am I seeing

@aceventura5398

Жыл бұрын

@@mom_im_losing_it my post to your * how am i seeing * isnt appearing on my screen. Did you receive it ?

"Our Minds only sees the fruit of a tree that we hardly know its roots"

@Nanette_DeCardenas

2 жыл бұрын

Best way to know reality is the Blind / Deaf man.

@literalghost929

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nanette_DeCardenas The only empty glass is the one that is full.

In my opinion one of the best talks in a long time.

@giomjava

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

@troydavis1

3 жыл бұрын

this was the worst and most dangerous idea ever, a fallacy, total bunch of junk, dressed up in a nice sweet sauce, catering to your need to feel all powerful by believing there is no reality and we make it all up. Its about the worst idea and lie in the universe, and its totally arrogant and egocentric ! mind boggling how people gobble up any nonsense as long as its presented with sciency words. Use your BRAIN and dont let this snake oil salesman convince you there is no reality !!

@MarkoKraguljac

3 жыл бұрын

@@troydavis1 No, it caters to our deep sense that reality might not exactly be what ego stories make it to be. It encourages us to admit that we don't know. Admitting and embracing ignorance is the beginning of true curiosity, wisdom and finally sanity.

@oiuyuioiuyuio

3 жыл бұрын

@@troydavis1 Completely agree.

@epsomvince5950

2 жыл бұрын

@@troydavis1 very well said...!!!! 👍👍

A few yeaes ago i went through this phobia of certain shapes and geometric designs. My perception would construct these shapes and designs everywhere, objects i knew to be a certain way were entirely different. This went on for many months. I'm fine now. But sometimes i'll come across these objects or structures as they appear now and it absolutely baffles me how I once perceived them. In short, I know empirically that our minds are constructing our physical reality.

This is a masterpiece of a TED talk!

What a fantastically modest man Don is, for all his brilliance. Also, Chris really deserves all his success I think: unlike many other conference chairs who just show up for questions afterwards as a token but then wait for the speaker to finish so they can move in in their list, he actually takes part in the conversation and *is interested*! Two brilliant men, great video

As much as I love TED Talks, I have never understood why this question is so confounding. Now, to be fair, it does depend what you mean. "If noses didn't exist, would odors exist?" Well, that depends on what you're referring to when you say "odors." If you mean the object you detect with that sense, a collection of particles on the air, then yes. If you mean the particular sensation we experience when we smell odors, then most likely not. Do we see reality as it is? No. It's not even up for discussion. There are things we know exist that we can't see. It's either too small, too big, too slow, too fast, or simply is not in the small spectrum of light the human eye can see. We cannot see ultraviolet light the way honey bees do. We cannot detect sound reflected from small objects like bats do. And we cannot smell the pheromone scent trail ants leave behind them to do everything they do. We are limited to our senses, and therein to their thresholds. There is a word for this, it's called the Umwelt. To deep sea creatures, sound does not exist. To bacteria, taste does not exist. And to us, were it not for scientific deduction, electrons wouldn't exist. So the question then becomes, WHY do we perceive the world the way we do? Why does salt taste the way salt tastes? Is my red the same as your red? Well, answering that would require us to examine our own brains outside of our epistemic barrier, which is impossible by definition. We may gain a better understanding in the future, but we will never have a definite answer.

@justgivemethetruth

9 жыл бұрын

***** What is up for discussion is how we miss seeing reality and why? Makes me thing of the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" which goes through a huge list of logical errors people make when they apply or misapply their brains. Another one is "Simple Truths, Vital Lies" which explains in logical detail how and why we de-focus on certain things.

@ibis0921

9 жыл бұрын

***** but its bigger than that. I agree that our beings are tuned to understand what is favorable for our existence and that is not reality as you pointed out. I think the larger point is that brains, neurons, atoms, electrons, don't exist even as we have observed them to exist. That reality at its most fundamental level may not be at all what we think it is. If thats a natural thought for you that awesome and your really intelligent for thinking. I think for me whats more insane is not the the conclusion he comes to but the implications that that conclusion brings up about the nature of the universe we live in. Maybe all of the scientific discoveries and ideas we have had are all just apart of our evolutionary progression towards survival and the reality is far.... far.... far.... different then we even know. If that's the case and if we can understand the coding of this universal structure how will that shape the way we see ourselves and the universe philosophically as well as scientifically. I don't know i thought it was a pretty awesome talk.

@filipsky3248

9 жыл бұрын

***** Fortunately, after few minutes of this talk, it turned out that it's not about the question "if a tree falls in a forest does it make a sound", as was my prejudice :)

@Nashy119

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel Cobar I think it is something many people think about when they are growing up. "I'm 14 and this is deep" as the internet would say. I still think it was an entertaining talk and will be useful to some people though.

@bigfletch8

9 жыл бұрын

***** "We" belongs to the world of empiricism. The answer is realized only by "I". Try substituting for "we" in your last sentence. Always a very good exercise ;-)

The double slit experiment was profound on many levels. Matter at a fundamental level behaves differently when observed. Now, what if the perception of reality every human senses was completely different....but the way we describe it to each other matches each of our individual perceptions? For instance, I see a red rose. The color and shape of it are how I perceive it. To another person the shape of the rose might be completely different and that persons red might be blue. Even though we are seeing completely different perceptions of rose, we describe it so that we agree it is perceived by both of us exactly the same. This being said, the world might be completely and utterly different for each of us in how it's perceived. Only our description of it causes us to believe that what we perceive as reality is the same for everyone.

I think this goes in line with Kant's argument: we perceive things through a prior constructions of our sensational faculties, and there is a 'things in themself' to be, as a 'first/absolute reality' which is unreachable to us, or to any other consciously active organisms.

19:06 "Perception is not about seeing truth, it's about having kids." This is so obvious once you realize it, and explains so much about human behavior, but might be difficult to see or accept before you do realize it.

@XTSY

3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@troydavis1

3 жыл бұрын

this was the worst and most dangerous idea ever, a fallacy, total bunch of junk, dressed up in a nice sweet sauce, catering to your need to feel all powerful by believing there is no reality and we make it all up. Its about the worst idea and lie in the universe, and its totally arrogant and egocentric ! mind boggling how people gobble up any nonsense as long as its presented with sciency words. Use your BRAIN and dont let this snake oil salesman convince you there is no reality !!

@lyricessence

3 жыл бұрын

@@troydavis1 So, you flunked math?

@troydavis1

3 жыл бұрын

@@lyricessence yeah, especially tensor calculations on 4-manifolds in General relativity in undergrad :-), and you ? How far did you get before failing math ??

One of the best TED talks I've seen. what we seen is just the icons on a screen, not the massive reality, which we could hardly handle, that lies beyond them.

@JamchesterBoozle

2 жыл бұрын

That's one of the best analogies I've ever heard.

@PandukaNeluwala

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@zafarmirza403

2 жыл бұрын

Well said sir.

@viktorbirkeland6520

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. I mean, evolutionarily speaking, you don't really need to percieve anything further than a few kilometers, and most of our senses are really a lot shorter than that. What gets me is the argument of colour. Do we see colour the same way? And if so, how can we possibly know? If your red was my blue, sure some people would prefer different colours, but we do so already. You could theoretically make an argument that everyone, all the people on earth, has the same favourite 'perceived' colour, but that our eyes decide the light waves hitting our retinas aren't the same. Because objectively, things don't have colour. In a vacuum, with no light, everything looks the same. Yes, things have different reflectivety, but without a light source, things don't have colour, and under different kinds of light, the exact same things suddenly change colour, without anything on the object itself changing, just the light source. So is everything just black then, only gaining colour when light is reflected by it? I don't know, I'm not smart enough to know such things, but it does truly fascinate me that it's possible that what I call Green, you could perceive as what I call red. These are only relative terms, and as long as we both see the same things or colours reflected uniformally, i.e you see all my reds as your greens, and vice versa, we would never know about it, because the reflectivety stays the same, we see the same colours as reds and greens our whole life, and what you perceive is only yours, you can't show other people what you perceive!

@a42lalrinkimi48

Жыл бұрын

@@viktorbirkeland6520 I was JUST thinking about this analogy today. We don't even know what we think we know. What i see is what my brain is telling me i am seeing. I have had hallucinations and they seemed so real to me, yet no one else would see them, But there they were, to my brain it was there. Even different animals see colours we can not see.

the best and mind opening talk on ted talk.

Great talk Prof. Hoffman! 👌🏻

@karlinaastuti

21 күн бұрын

but so far this is the closest religion to objective reality, and I just want your opinion about it.

I heard this concept as a child while listening to the elders reading the Hindu text - the Ramayana. It’s called MAYA. Took many years to begin to understand it. Thanks for shedding light.

@starlordgg

7 ай бұрын

i was sure atleast one guy would their bring their religious agenda into this. "My book said this 1000+ years ago" type comments are everywhere. Yet, when you dig deep its just confirmation bias and seeing things that you want to see in those scriptures.

@threestars2164

7 ай бұрын

Nonsense

My reality interface is still using Windows 98... :(

@Mortthemoose

3 жыл бұрын

Lol....my reality interface is Windows 7

@carynebio

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mortthemoose At least is not Windows 8! That would be a mess!

@firstnamelastname-xx3pe

3 жыл бұрын

What is Windows? MS-DOS 6.0 serves me just fine!

@TakingTheRedPill69

2 жыл бұрын

At least its not Millennium 🤣

"There's something that exists when you don't look but it isn't spacetime and physical objects." This is the most interesting statement that I have ever contemplated.

Amazing! Spell bounding analysis of self realisation or existance. Actually close to madness. Whether it is the mind, or the eye, or any of the abstract attributes we are endowed with, It is all a gift of The Ever lasting, The Self subsisting.

Thank you for providing this video in this time of uncertainty and isolation. I believe that this is the best time to get to know the significance of one's existence and sense of self ... time to shine introverts!!!

@irrelevant_noob

3 жыл бұрын

Have you missed the info that this video is from Jun 2015? :-)

TED becoming my favorite channel....great bedtime stuff

Watching this episode the second time. First time I didn't think I would watch it again with such interest.

I love that he doesn't try to be a comedian every other sentence 💟

I think we may be one dimension short of being able to actually figure the universe out.

@arielhernandez1638

3 жыл бұрын

No. Even after we "figure out the Universe", it will still surprise us.

@TS-hw7ro

3 жыл бұрын

Ariel Hernandez yes since im sure there is more then “just” our universe to explore

@Tate525

3 жыл бұрын

@@TS-hw7ro yes realms & dimensions beyond us

@Helios601

3 жыл бұрын

@@arielhernandez1638 Especially if the universe is conscious of itself.

@Nanette_DeCardenas

2 жыл бұрын

Best way to know reality is the Blind / Deaf man.

WELCOME to The Matrix. You’ve lived here all your life.

@user-vx9yp7ch3e

4 жыл бұрын

jeffery Rutherford what the fck

@veronicadiazdiaz1738

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-vx9yp7ch3e well better yet live in a. Holography Universe of all possibilities.. So watch THOUGHTS.... Even better look up Karen Hudes better days to come -Golden Age...

@user-vx9yp7ch3e

4 жыл бұрын

@@veronicadiazdiaz1738 thanks will do

@drjojo5551

4 жыл бұрын

A matrix is just another comic book, just like the enterprise and co.

@veronicadiazdiaz1738

4 жыл бұрын

@@drjojo5551 pls look up Karen Hudes and laugh with us. (the Masses) all D way to the Banks... Lol comics and the Jettison and beyond... Love ur Thinking !! ..... Forget not ever !! True better than Fiction .. Love bye !!

Very interesting. It is almost intuitive once you grasp the overall point he is making.

He describes almost exactly what my intuition has been. I also believe that the universe is analogous to atoms and they themselves are particles in a bigger structure.

I like Donald Hoffman. In this talk he suggests an idea and demonstrates it through analogies. Proving it will be more difficult.

This was BRILLIANTLY done! Amazing, understandable, demonstrable, logical, well spoken, easy to conceptualize. Very good job sir!

@jamesprice6015

3 жыл бұрын

What is not with you?! 😡

@troydavis1

3 жыл бұрын

this was the worst and most dangerous idea ever, a fallacy, total bunch of junk, dressed up in a nice sweet sauce, catering to your need to feel all powerful by believing there is no reality and we make it all up. Its about the worst idea and lie in the universe, and its totally arrogant and egocentric ! mind boggling how people gobble up any nonsense as long as its presented with sciency words. Use your BRAIN and dont let this snake oil salesman convince you there is no reality !!

@x-popone6817

2 жыл бұрын

@@troydavis1 No, he is not saying we can just make stuff up. He is saying that our minds reconstruct information to create a perception. It is not an arrogant view, you are just misunderstanding it.

@troydavis1

2 жыл бұрын

@@x-popone6817 you are naive and deluded, hes not saying what youre saying, which is banal, trivial, and accepted science for hundreds of years ! So youre just fooling yourself and its you not listening to his words ! You remind me of religious fanatics defending the pentateuch/torah or quoran, saying. They dont really mean that vile stuff ! You mis understand! No Sir! Youre the deluded ‘useful idiot’ who excuses madness !!!

@x-popone6817

2 жыл бұрын

@@troydavis1 This comment of your has no substance. Just an incoherent, close-minded, rant

An illusion is like a mirage that is later contradicted by another perception, the mirage does not come into existence, it was merely a false appearance. So the only way reality could be an illusion is if we all cognized another perception that cancels our universal experience that we call reality.

Being blind to our own blindness makes uncomfortable but hard to refute sense. Becoming aware that as humans we may be forever cut off from experiencing reality by our very own nature. Like trying to work out the inner structure and workings of a computer by studying the pixels on its monitor.

Who else is here after watching him being interviewed by a person i will not name. Kept being cut off so I am here 🤗

When I was young a stray cat got in my house.. I heard a noise.. was scared and looked over the bannister.. my brain painted a dwarf complete with boots running down the hall... I froze in fear... The next glance was I saw the stray cat.... I laughed in relief but for that fight or flight reflex my brain altered reality....

@rogerlimoseth4790

4 жыл бұрын

Ever think the dwarf transformed into a cat to protect itself?

@ben2366

4 жыл бұрын

We’re you with Joe Rogan doing that DMT?

@martinsapsitis4292

3 жыл бұрын

Touche Andy!

@donniedonnie639

3 жыл бұрын

reality is a projection of a more solid world behind the screen - sometimes it glitches

@troydavis1

3 жыл бұрын

NO, your brain did NOT alter reality! you see, this kind of careless statement is what this fake scientist wants you to believe, or how he wants you to think, in totally incorrect ways, which ASSUME what he is trying to prove! your brain filled in gaps in your comprehension of it with something more readily available in your brain, literally an image which was already "sitting" there (and had you been of another culture, it would have been another image....), and then corrected itself with the accurate image in a split second ! thats all ! it NEVER changed reality! this kind of sloppy thinking is what idiots like him promote, and its the worst thing in the world, because he teaches you NOT to be precise with words, but talk nonsense using the same false assumptions he makes.

Absolutely brilliant!

Space and time is the desktop of reality and physical objects are the icons. That's a stunning revelation.

The speech was brilliant, intuitive and the storytelling could easily lead to a bestseller. I Am a also a big fan of the Matrix but still... I don't think it was a necessary reference in such an inspiring speech. Great work TED, keep the good work !

Great stuff! All good fodder for the interest in Consciousness. From my perspective, the bigger news from Donald's talk is how this POV of our perception of reality puts a unique spin on Evolution and Natural De-selection.

This was the deepest TED talk I've ever watched.

As a photographer and documentarian, I can't believe our eyes are 130 mega pixels. Other than everything else he said, this is really blowing my mind.

@greenbongos

Жыл бұрын

@Farb S it’s an estimate

@nmarbletoe8210

Жыл бұрын

130 interesting! also we have many layers of AI in between the retina and the brain. i have read that the eye can detect a single photon

Keeps things simple but worthwhile. Excellent presentation

I like how careful he is in describing conciousness and reality in a non-mystical way. If we payed attention to quantum fysics and basic biology, we could have recognized a long time ago that reality is all in our head. Like a VR experience. But the amazing thing is, once we realize this, we have the power to alter the experience. Enter a new age of humanity, with infinite possibilities.

@emperorpicard4901

2 жыл бұрын

The guy is a hack who uses circular reasoning, he created a evolutionary simulation to "prove" that fitness does not equal reality, problem is that you can create any environment in a evolutionary simulation, after all ITS A SIMULATION! The question however is, whether fitness supports reality in the real world, which he has not answered. Its a little bit like Lewis Carol trying to proven "how deep the rabbit hole goes" by writing Alice in wonderland and claiming it as prove. Its does not prove anything, except that one could imaging such a world, but not that the world actually is like that. As for the beetle, I don't know why he would think that it disproves the notion that fitness favors reality, since the beetles inaccurate perception caused the problem in the first place. It does not seem to be doing his argument any favors.

@ysy_y

Жыл бұрын

@@emperorpicard4901 I think you have a point, but I imagine there's more to his thesis and works than a 21 minute TED talk.

@danielmoore4024

Жыл бұрын

​@@emperorpicard4901 What you see is a projection of your own thoughts, you do not look at every single thing in your environment but you are under the impression you know what's there. You didn't look but you are seeing something, what are you seeing? What you assume is there. You're also susceptible to change blindness, when you leave an environment it was one way, things changed while you were away, you return and you don't notice the subtle changes that you think the environment is the way you left it. We are often out of the moment, how can our minds perceive the moment if our mind is not even in the moment? I'm not going to go on forever, but I can assure you society is blinded by cultural myopia.

Excellent talk 👏🏼

When I was a preschooler I ask the teacher what happened to the room when we weren't in it? She said: "It's empty, it's still here but it's empty." I replied: "How do we know that? If no one is here maybe it's NOT here." By the end of second grade and asking these type of questions, I was placed in the learning disabled class.

omg i thought i was going insane i straight up think about like all this everynight by myself

George Berkeley and Kant. Exactly what came to mind while watching this.

@pikiwiki

3 жыл бұрын

"I refute it thus!" Johnson stubs toe

@8brightside8

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Hoffman is not original.

@wrinkleypinkley

3 жыл бұрын

Which Kant work or principle?

@neestovekin8251

2 жыл бұрын

Indra's net is what comes to mind for me when he talks, though that was first prompted by one of his other vids (made for Institute of Art & Ideas)

This is a valuable discussion of questions that have troubled philosophers for centuries. Some of these concepts are the subject of Immanuel Cant's Critique of Pure Reason, written in 1781. "...through the transcendental idealism of objects (as appearance) and their form of appearance. Kant regards the former "as mere representations and not as things in themselves", and the latter as "only sensible forms of our intuition, but not determinations given for themselves or conditions of objects as things in themselves". - Wikipedia entry for the Critique of Pure Reason. Ludwig Wittgenstein, perhaps the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, and a remarkable and enigmatic man who gave away a fortune to live a simple life, also investigated this area in the early 20th Century with his Duck/Rabbit inquiry into visual perception.

Listening to this talk that scene from the Matrix where Cypher is having dinner with Agent Smith and he talks about the steak he's eating that doesn't exist yet his brain is telling him its juicy and tasty.and that's what he experiences yet there's no steak comes to mind. Maybe that movie was onto something. Fascinating subject. Thank you. I love Ted talks.

This is truly exciting! We are on the brink of a deeper understanding of reality and therefore our selves.

@calb488

Жыл бұрын

wow

@caroldelosangeles3621

Жыл бұрын

So excited too love to see people interested here Lets share

@timothyhofman4260

2 ай бұрын

Uhm... this is rather very scary, because if I understood it correctly, than this means that having a more accurate understanding of reality decreases our likelyhood of survival. Which could mean more bluntly that: The development in science will eventually lead to our extinction. And if I look to the current state of our biosphere -on which we depend- in relation to the influence of our science based development in technology. Which resulted in following; like for example: climate change, loss in biodiversity, desertification, intoxification, nuclear threats et cetera. Then it seems at the least the start of proving this hypothesis.

@align2source

2 ай бұрын

@@timothyhofman4260 I think you misunderstand this concept, Donald Hoffmans research reveals that our evolutionary sensory experience of reality is false. We can still expand our knowledge and understanding through real science to learn to know reality for what it is. Too learn to see through the "veil". And this is exactly what Donald Hoffmans "mission" is.

Very very good talk. Don Hoffman is def onto something for sure.

A fellow inmate at the homeless shelter recommended this to me, and I'm glad he did. I'd like to know what he thinks of Rosch, Berlin, Kay, and Lakoff. A bit of Austin, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche couldn't hurt, either. But not Kuhn, who throws too many ashtrays for my comfort. There's a lot of evidence that space and time are not the real deal. First and most trivially, Special Relativity connects space and time into spacetime. Now, the energy-momentum quaternion (yes, yes, I know physicists like vectors or putting _i_ in or weird operators, but I like quaternions) transforms the same way, suggesting a connection. General Relativity confirms this. First, the energy-momentum tensor *is* the spacetime curvature. Second, the equation of the Schwarzschild radius is r=2M, which connects mass with space and so the energy-momentum thingie with the spacetime thingie. Then there's Bell's inequality and spooky action at a distance, which "action" somehow cannot transmit Shannon information at superluminal speeds. And there's Feynman's sum over histories approach to _e.g._ the two-slit experiment, which kind of fixes what is obviously not a classical trajectory into pseudo-trajectories that result in amplitudes. Also the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which suggests that concepts such as momentum and position, as well as energy and the rate of change of energy, cannot simultaneously be measured to arbitrarily good precision. So there have to be quantum fluctuations; otherwise we'd know that the energy level was 0 and not changing. And also the electron doesn't just drop into the nucleus, because we'd know where it was and that it wasn't moving. On the level of cognitive science, though, it all makes sense. We have structures unfortunately called topographic maps near the surface. Brains are wrinkled for more of them. They work a bit like 1980s video games or, better, cellular automata. They deal inherently in position and motion. So those are the things we look for. Oh, by the way, they also do Aristotelian two-valued logic, which is why it's so slow. Every syllogism has to be "run" on one of these topographic maps. There is something like logic in neurons, which are sort of hybrid AND/OR gates, and neurotransmitter-mediated switches to and from inhibition, which puts a NOT in. I have a hypothesis that real neural networks, which of course cannot use backpropagation, which is neurologically implausible, use this to reverse the effects of wrong Hebbian learning. So, you work on a problem, fail, and get frustrated. This changes your neurotransmitter effects and flips some neurons to NOT. The essentially randomly reconfigured network maybe lets you see the problem in a new light. I could go on, but that's enough. Now you can go back to the presumption that homeless are just drug-addled wastrels, which my empirical evidence shows is rather popular in the TED set.

Upnishad (ancient philosophical documents) said this long before " brahma satya , jagat mithya" (World is not what you see) Swami vivekananda explained this in great detail in his lectures on Maya.

Ever since I was a child I always asked myself this question, I used to ask adults, what's outside of our eyes?

@billpiechocki

2 жыл бұрын

@oofafoo, nice. Deep. I like.

@angelinarobert622

2 жыл бұрын

That's similar to Elon Musk's question that he'd ask a Super Artificial Intelligence: "What's outside the simulation?" 🤔 Probably an alien playing Sims 8,000. on a Quantum PlayStation 5000. In any case it doesn't matter, we cannot escape the simulation. So if simulation theory is just a theory, simulation theory is popular among the wealthy because it justifies the exploitation of employees, "i don't have to give him a raise. He's just a simulation." yup, the wealthy who believe in simulation theory are sociopaths. 🤔Give peace a chance and give him a raise, Scrooge McDuck. ☮️

@angelinarobert622

2 жыл бұрын

Quantum Particles like photons are outside our eyes. -the smarty pants adult. 🖖😐☮️

@angelinarobert622

2 жыл бұрын

Quantum Particles like photons are outside our eyes. -the smarty pants adult. 🖖😐☮️

@angelinarobert622

2 жыл бұрын

Quantum Particles like photons are outside our eyes. -the smarty pants adult. 🖖😐☮️

Cognitive dissonance is necessary in order to process new information that challenges our old paradigm in the process of seeing reality as it is.

@justinebeaver1419

8 жыл бұрын

+recalcitrist1 Totally agree.....it's not like cognitive dissonance is a _bad_ thing ;)

@chatek3858

8 жыл бұрын

agree

@ietsbram

7 жыл бұрын

and not overload

@2030matrix

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. There are many who try to hold on to old models and refuse to go with current information. That is the way of science and I guess it's best.

@msflyingfree7

7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately many stay in cognitive dissonance - living in the crazy world of mental gymnastics, holding on to old paradigms way longer than is healthy - destroying themselves and the planet along the way.

So intriguing…I’m gonna have to watch this six more times.

how do I follow up this topic? Is there a community? I love content like this and keep thinking about it