Proof That Reality Is An ILLUSION: The Mystery Beyond Space-Time – Donald Hoffman | Know Thyself E63
In this thought-provoking episode, cognitive psychologist and author Donald Hoffman takes us on a journey through the mysteries …
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February 23, 2026
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There is no such as thing as truth. there is no such thing as reality. There is no proof of anything. There is no self and there is no you. You dont know anything about anything. No one knows anything about anything.
Boring, helps me fall asleep
Seems to me, if it is only The One, it would not be needing or caring to understand itself. I'm thinking there is a need of a "yang" to have Yin move to understand itself, a Shakti get the "god" motivated to "action."
How did a space ship land on the moon, when I wasn't looking at it? [Bearing in mind, both Plato's idea of a table, & that Buddha's nursemaid was Maya.]
Yeah, the gat you see in your face won't knock your head off. It's all fake, including your stupid logic.
Astrophysicists reported that there are trillions of galaxies and stars in the universe, more than the combined grains of sands on our planet , some of them are observable, some are not because they are beyond our realm of perception. you hypothesized that if you can't perceive things they don't exist, you used the moon as an example that it does not exist if you are not perceiving it. So how come these astrophysicists determined that there are trillions of other galaxies/stars that exist out there in non- observable universe? Please enlighten my ignorance.
Does this means that my parents aren't real but just creation of my own mind? Well I don't this to happen. I really love my parents
We are put here on Earth, as it's a leaning tool for our soul. It shapes us, so we are you could say a small computer, that connects to the main computer, so all connected and our computer can give and receive information to the larger computer and learns from your computer experience to help tje main computer to create and learn and adjust it's programming. To know love, which the Universe is, we won't come to realize love unless we are in a physical form. The universe created us in Physical form as an experiment and learns from us. The Universe to help understand use in Physical form created Jesus. He not only came here to say we need love, but to try to understand why we don't accept it, so given free will to accept or reject love. Jesus suffered and realized we are blind and don't know what we are doing, so the Universe because of Jesus is letting the experiment continue and helps shape us. When we Passover our lives are reviewed and all our sufferings, and good and bad times are lessons and go through them and experience them, so helps us learn for the next life and helps the universe learn new experiences by our induvial souls, just like your computer giving information to the main computer can learn and increase it's knowledge an if using AI becomes smarter
On OBE: Years ago I was addicted to swimming, sometimes 14hrs a week. One sunny Saturday I got to the pool real early and swam for 3 hours without stopping. It felt like the physical part of swimming had become automatic and separate and I thought about many things. For quite a lot of the time I would almost forget I was swimming. Anyway, when I got out of the pool at noon, it was a bright sunny day , clear blue sky hardly a breeze and I started walking home. Within a short time I found myself looking down at myself walking along the pavement, from an elevated 'portal'. It was though I had the most clear pure thought, almost zero thoughts, very uncluttered. Somehow I knew everything was going to be fine. As I looked down at myself I had sympathy, poor you I thought, you don't really know how it really is and you are destined to struggle with things life throws at you. I suspect this was consciousnesses temporal view into my locality. It was quite an experience. Another thing that 'I' felt was that there was no time? There was just thought. This seemed to last quite a while, I don't really know how long as there did not seem to be a perception of time passing. Then all of a sudden I woke up at my flat and I had actually walked back and had fallen asleep in the chair over an hour ago. I was pretty disappointed that I was back in 'reality'
so none of this is real its the fact our eyes make our soul see through to the world like how can the soul only leave the body when you die not when you dont
How do we answer the question that the first atom and the first suns exploded and formed the suns and galaxies worked and the Earth was formed before there was any observer of it and it was present and we have gold that was formed billions of years ago inside exploding stars and we have water that was formed without an observer 😅
10:38 because it didn’t happen because it’s bs
And what is the working definition of “real” ?
I have always thought of this reality as God’s creation. God’s Matrix, only as a child I had no exact verbiage for it. I remember being surrounded by all white around me, and feeling secure, loved. I was given my choice of choosing my birth parents. Choosing from 3-different couples, but they were identical in their outward appearance, only each couple’s family dynamic’s varied, and were significantly different. I was able to see how my parents interacted with my older siblings, so I picked the set I liked the most. As a young child I discovered Jesus, and I was always speaking to him in my head, if I wasn’t doing anything else at the time. I was 4 years old playing outside, and I came running into my house, when I saw God, he patted my head, and told me he was always with me, then he disappeared. If ever I was scared, I always would call upon Jesus, and he made things right. As time passed on by I came to a better understanding of Jesus, who he was, who he is, he’s actually my Savior, and I realized his name was my actual password to everything.! He is my password for feeling whole, feeling complete.😍 I have always remembered before birth, and I assumed this was normal, I thought everyone else did as well. Only recently was it that I discover not everyone has memories of prior to being born.😳 Maybe it’s not me remembering prior to birth.🤔 Because it was only recently I found out folks don’t normally, remember before being born, I was told perhaps it was actually a NDE I was remembering, not a prior to birth experience.🤔 The reason I was being told this was because I shared the fact I was born prematurely, also was born RH negative. Back in 1960 apparently this was very dangerous, scary for my folks. Apparently a blood transfusion was required to save my life, all my blood had to be replaced with a different blood type. I still don’t understand, and know everything. My sister believes I died, and was revived.🤔 It’s all very interesting though.🧐
This is true
When does my headset gets upgraded? Do I have to die? How many headsets are there?
What makes me curious: what is in the tiny gap between what it presented and what we interpret through our senses as the "present". It has been proven to be milliseconds, but it's still there.
^^^ what is that?
In addition, how does one effectively spend more time outside the headset?
Get josha bach on. I think he is one of the brightest minds
This is definitely just a waste of our thoughts, especially numbers and quantifying which basically means counting but we can't count what we can't see and don't know where to start counting so definitely couldn't quantify things that are too small or too large for us to see with our eyes and we can however imagine things that our eyes and other sense can't sense. And to manifest is to know what you are thinking is what will come to be, faith… But we surely would have a good idea about the world we're in…
Well, if a person dies without believing in Jesus Christ, they will immediately lift up their eyes in the torments of Hell. A person can say that reality is an illusion but will be eternally suffering in Hell, where their worm dies not and the fire is never quenched!!
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son. So anyone that believes in him will not perish ( go to Hell ) but will have everlasting life. ( Heaven )
Just because someone thinks and says what he or she says is true does NOT mean that it is true. All these different "ideas" which are given to us as if they are a FACT are only confusing people .
Gnostiscism and science goes hand in hand.
Gibberish.
The idea that things don't exist unless they're being observed is nonsense. Last night it was a clear sky when I went to sleep. This morning, I woke up to find my balcony wet, it had rained during the night. Nobody saw the rain, but the event happened anyway. Reality doesn't depend on me watching it to keep functioning.
LIFE IS NOT Å SIMULATION, YOU DON'T GET Å REPLAY. Science based in theory is the illusion. Nature is reality, mans society and science based in convincing lies called theories, creates the illusion. You only get one shot at this life, you better make the best of ¡†
Gonna have to watch this again, and again and againz
So i just created a totally awesome video?
You're welcome.
🖖 Love and light
Beautiful ❤
This information is too advanced for people who have not done any kind of inner work or deep self reflection on themselves to understand. You have to spend a lot of time "alone" to reach this point. This can scare the living sh$t out of people if they're not ready for it or leave them very confused. I myself, live for this stuff. It gives me goosebumps and excites me to my core.
So many questions. Why do some people ditch their interface? By that, I mean, end their own life? And then why don't we all just ditch the interface?
What happens to our consciousness when our "headset" dies? If we no longer have the interface, how does our consciousness interact with others, or is this where the theory of one consciousness comes in, and I become we, but we are one….??
Would love you to interview Tony Parsons, Jim Newman, Alexis non duality speakers.
I asked a few days ago for a YT conversation that was elevated from all the nonsense. Thank you so much for posting.
Great One!!
are you actually for real guy! Grand Theft Auto?!? that is what you went with? do you even know video games or VR at all? no you dont you are making me so mad it was not until that one part where you chose to use GTA as your go to to describe what the "science" you are studing is…. also just a side note over here you just stepped into this world of make believe that many of us have lived in our entire lives and you are absolutely not an expert. Ok let me teach you a thing or two # GTA is 2-D Bulshit flat and dumb af not at all anything even on a computer its on a game console and I would know because I played it all through high school. Have you even beat the game let alone played it? probly not. You should have used TRON or TRON Legacy!!!! we are in that. the end. Now second point if there is not a human on earth then earth doesnt exist duh but here is the part your stupid ass studies have yet to come to see if there is just one creature with concsiouness on earth earth exists fucking duh. God Andre where the hell did you find this joke. I legit got to 26:33 and just about lost my mind I was so mad… whatever dude get paid to show it off I dont really care its a flawed idea and system he is pitching and he will get thrown out eventually.
INCLUDING YOUR BODY…..
Talk is cheap. Takes money to buy whiskey.
FELL FROM TRUTH…..YOUR REALTY UN CHECK ILLUSION BECAME MAN TRUTH.
Any real scientists will tell you that our perception of the world around is not the full picture of reality especially when you consider we are only aware of what 4% of the universe is made of. Ofcourse it doesn't necessarily mean it's all a so called "simulation" but it makes you wonder doesn't it.
How could the physical attributes that the moon has on the earth… whether you are looking at the moon or not.
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Its as REAL as it GETS.
What a great conversation. Thank you
I dont go deeper. I'm.goding High 🙂
Trying to convince me the Mexicans using leaf blowers outside of my window in the morning are an illusion?
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Reality is not an illusion. Believing we’re free is an illusion. We’re enslaved by others beings who put minds on us. But it’s not forever Trust God