Proof You’re Living In The Matrix – Reality, Consciousness & Simulation Theory | Donald Hoffman
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On Today’s Episode:
It’s pretty normal that you think of reality being the world around us, the tangible things you see and interact with. You probably even include and make space for how your emotions influence perception and tie that into what creates your reality.
Donald Hoffman is joining Tom for another mind-bending episode to challenge if we’re actually living in a false reality. Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist that has argued against reality and the limitations of spacetime.
Some questions being posed in this episode that will stretch your beyond your limits are:
What is beyond spacetime?
What is the true structure of objective reality?
Is it possible evolution has shaped us in a way that guides our behaviors and therefore how we see objective reality?
His idea of comparing our current reality to that of living in a virtual headset is being taken to the next few levels up and exploring the strategies we use to survive the game of life.
Check out Donald Hoffman’s latest book, The Case Against Reality, Why Evolution Hid The Truth From Our Eyes here: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/dp/0393254690
Don’t miss Donald’s last conversation on Why Reality Is All A Lie: https://youtu.be/Ehz89eV5JR4
QUOTES:
“The strategies are ways to survive long enough to reproduce. So you can look at the different strategies for playing the game of life…”
“The game of life is, how do I live long enough to reproduce and how do I raise my offspring to maturity.”
“Our window on the world is trivial compared to in principle what could be available.”
“The probability is one that we don’t see the truth at all.”
“Visual attention, paying attention to different objects, is our way of switching from this representation of fitness payoffs to this representation of fitness payoffs.”
“Spacetime is just our headset.”
“We’ve been short-changed. Really shallow data structure. Only three-dimensions of space, one dimension of time, we got a cheap headset.”
“Reason is telling us its limits. Reason is saying that logic itself cannot get to all truths.”
“It’s better to put something on the table and get a negative reaction so we can say, what are better places to go in this.”
Follow Donald Hoffman:
Website:http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/
Email: ddhoff@uci.edu
Twitter: https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donalddhoffman/
@TomBilyeu
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
WARNING: I will never ask for your contact info in the comments section, that is someone impersonating me!
@hhc1000
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
This bloke has lost it
@iosuser1174
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
You both sitting now prove it live
@Tina-u5t9o
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Simulation theory is a mirror of religion
@fireside9503
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Thumbs down for the 300 commercials. Way to ruin your art.
@SatoshiGaming-ju7kv
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
The truth is inside the QURAN
@TheJuliaJaneHouse1887
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
When i was 16, I was experiencing nightly dreams where I would die ,every night a different death but would wake up right before total disconnect. One night I was so exhausted I remember asking the creator to show me past the death dreams , to show me what is beyond current life. I went to sleep and i found myself deeply submerged in a gel like water at a great depth, I was being pulled up very quickly to the surface of this abyss like ocean , when I emerged from the water like substance I slowly regained my eyesight and my hearing, there I was inside of a enormous room , that was stratospherically white, with a elongated pure white stone table that went on for what seemed like 100 ft or so, around the table were beings that were in constant undulating energy, they were glowing white and I could see that these beings had eyes , and I noticed all of them had eyes that mirrored the earths most beautiful precious stones, garnet,sapphire ect there were no other features detected just energy that was in constant motion swirling yet separated into their own spots around the table. At that point a being floated across the room to me and asked me how my ride was? I could hear the question internally there was no real voices, I could hear excitement from the other beings as well, noting this the being guided me through the room over to a enormous set of windows these were as large as football fields, and I was directed to look. As I looked out there from the windows I could see millions and millions of stars ,and my eyes followed the view and i caught glimpse of part of a ship and I followed the part to the left and saw how it curved and kept going for miles on end , yea I was in a space craft , as my eyes reached the end of the ship there was a brilliant red laser that was projecting beams straight up from the tail of the ship and at the very top of the beams I saw the tiniest marbles and realized then the marbles were earth, the sun, moon and our galaxy. All miniatures like a speck of sand conpared to the enormity of the ship.
Once I saw the beam and the galaxy, I immediately felt a gravitational snap that pushed me back and down and I awoke in my bed and felt my body drop out.
I believe we are in a reality grid that we all must endure the reasoning is unknown . I believe our brains are bio chemical processors. I've thought about this dream for 38 years.
@lorraineguth3655
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
I was driving down a Tennessee mountain in dangerous weather. The rain began to fall down so fast and hard, I had no time to respond with anything other than the shortest prayer ever said. Nearly 0% visibility, and feelings of pure terror were felt, to the feeling of calmest feeling I ever felt in my life. Upon bracing myself for driving off the mountain to suddenly, magically rain fall stopped.!😳 There was a Hampton Inn sitting there, off to my right side visual. Still in state of shock, I drove to it, checked in, received last room available. I could not explain why we were still alive, or how. At first it was little differences I noticed, but upon my arrival home is when I noticed huge differences. I have window unit AC’s on occasion when I don’t wanna make the central heat and air any colder for the entire house, but rather just colder in a single room. When I left for TN, 1 of my 2 window units, were no longer usable, and the 2nd one in my bedroom would make an awful clanging noise when in use. However upon returning home suddenly, magically they both worked, and noise free. Things were relocated, such as a local fast food restaurant, I had been to regularly over a 30 year span of time. It was originally at 70th Avenue North, but now is at 30th, much closer to home. I asked the manager when did it they move, his response was we never did, we have always been here.!😮 Noticing things like this daily, it’s been 16 years now, and it feels as if reality shifts occur frequently. But I was obviously 💯 unaware of them, the larger part of my life. I believe I accidentally discovered the password towards acceptance and observation at same time. You may decide for selves whether this is story of pure truth, or if it is real or not, whether it’s the Matrix or not, or if it’s through reaching out to Jesus I reached God, and everything is God’s response.!🤔🧐
@mrdylanbrowder1620
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Blasphemous! Those who accept this belief are victims of their own vein desires. Ask them if they exist….science can never measure the metaphysical. Sadly, the creation (human being) desires to be more than they are….a creation.
@RichardStone-d1t
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
What would Base Reality be like?
@chaokenny1749
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
reality is real making by materials but it is compressed with dimensions that people shifted and experienced time by time.
if it is an illusion when you think
if it is real when you feel on it
feel vs think … real vs illusion…both are correct
when u ask me which one tend to be….i might call it matrix without tangible evidence to prove it
@OnDemon-x4o
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
You will ALL receive confirmation for what I write here. If you have the courage. They keep us in a perfidious game between joy and sorrow. Alternating trauma staging with conflicts (with our with people). Private and public. That's the way they want to keep us from waking up.
They comply with exact cycles. When such things happen to you, imagine it as if you were looking at it from the outside. Then you realize that it can only be staging (due to the high improbability, accumulation of strange coincidences and the frequency).
All the bestial things that are done to people are their stagings. Furthermore, you should fight your fellow humans and not question the satanic system behind it, which is hostage and enslaving us (e.g. the fraudulent banks and economic system, the controlled media, the staged dependence on oil and gas). We won't be able to end this if you always repress everything and referred to as nonsense. They do incredible cruelties to us! You come back to the "game"! From a higher dimension are DEMONS, the voice in our head and they can set the emotional impulse. This is always what makes us "move". They permanently manipulate our thoughts and emotions world. Here in the 4 dimensional world, they are the well-known politicians, media creators, economically powerful, etc. The DEMONS on site (in human avatars), receive information for the process to take place shortly (!)<<
@nickalexander8491
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
"We got a cheap headset." Affirmative 😁
@DrSRanjanMBBSAcupuncturist
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Dear Tom, Kindly invite Eben Alexander, neurosurgeon & Author.
@Gambit-hd5cd
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
I mean, this seems very intuitive. Do you think crabs experience the same sensory experience as we do? No? Then at least one of us is not getting a sensory experience that truly reflects reality. To think that human sensory experience is "correct" is just odd.
@kamerawerks
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Incredible truths
@sinivlogzz
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Unique ness s a reality…tht s th distroyer
@LumiForge_X
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
we are not here
@briankelly1162
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
The speed of light is only possible cause of its transparency
@jamesbater7028
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
The whole of Creation including HUMANITY is the One Consciousness or GOD. Everything is ONE! If We hurt another we are hurting OURSELVES. THE EYE THROUGH WHICH I SEE GOD IS THE SAME EYE THROUGH WHICH GOD SEES ME.
@colinoriordan4343
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
00:01 – Welcome Back to the Matrix!
08:52 – Understanding Evolutionary Game Theory
14:34 – The Complexity of Reality
15:01 – The Nature of Perception and Reality
21:01 – Complexity vs. Simplicity in the Universe
29:04 – Cognitive Penetrability and Its Implications
30:02 – Evolution of Perception and Data Structures
35:06 – Reframing Beliefs and Outcomes in Life
40:20 – Understanding Space-Time and Black Holes
45:05 – Exploring Higher Dimensions and Data Structures
49:51 – Understanding the Amplitohedron
58:03 – Foundations Beyond Space-Time
1:00:13 – Exploring Quantum Realms and Local Realism
1:04:00 – Project Kaizen and Reality Rendering
1:11:06 – The Limits of Scientific Theory and Reality
1:15:15 – Understanding Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
1:21:52 – The Relationship between Consciousness and Reality
1:29:32 – Exploring the Dynamics of Consciousness
1:30:23 – *Consciousness Beyond Space-Time *
1:35:53 – *Dynamics of Consciousness and Physics *
1:44:52 – *Understanding Decorated Permutations *
1:45:25 – Understanding Identity in Mathematics
1:49:01 – Mapping Predictions and Reality
1:58:30 – Life-Changing Moments and Reflections
2:00:29 – Facing Fear and Mortality
2:02:54 – The Nature of Consciousness
2:08:00 – The Role of Science and Belief
@brynoreilly2731
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Can someone help me understand this: Following the same logic (I think)…if things are only rendered when I perceive them through the limited scope of my senses (as delineated by my VR headset), if no one is looking at me, or if I'm not looking in the mirror, say, then how do I have any certainty to claim that I exist? If the renderer actively renders the moon, doesn't the renderer also need to be rendered first to do so? What makes me, I, more permanent/constant?
@Sai-Chitravati
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Neti Neti.
@sydbarrett74
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
It's like vector vs raster graphics.
@MOVE2JAPAN
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Your such a good interviewer.
@MirceaEcxarcu
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
The more one searches with the tools within the head set the further he goes from getting awareness outside the headset. That is why the first ones in anything such as newton and all other first ones will always have students which by searching more they will strey away further form the All of everything.
@zendragon4037
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
question: early on they both acknowledge that a train coming at you and hitting you would killl you whether you were looking at the train or not, but then continue to discuss how nothing exists unless we render it, but looking at it or it being in our field of vision,,,, so what about the train? anyone?????
@richardmell299
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
You will have heard of the concept of bending the fabrics time itself and Its been proven by Science Itself. everbody that has ever lived and we have never truly experienced death Itself, the lord Father God has bent the fabrics time Itself so we all awake from this Matrix of things at one single moment in time united all the pain and suffering will be no more, we are facing a new dawn of meaning and understanding this system of things will be like just a bad dream that Father will take away, Father will keep this the father knows we are not ready, God does not want us to suffer with even the concept of a bad dream, The love and compassion and understanding of father, God has for Mankind is beyond all known understand within this system of things this Knowledge will be told to all the worlds nations for a Wittness, this current World system of things has to come to a end and will because of the deception Its in every fabric of society even the concept of Religion.
@CreaTiffany111
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
It does kind of feel like when you leave sims unattended for a little while and they just start doing the most random stuff on their own or when they are so tired or hungry or whatever that they won’t do what your asking them to do anymore. Feels like a more complex sim protest. There will be a fire and they won’t even put it out because they need to take a shower and eat and sleep all at the same time so they are too busy looking up and waving at you for help while the house is on fire.
@dzeyo651
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
one of the biggest revelations you can have isnt some hocus pocus 'other planes' thing .. its that the civilized world we live in 'as built' is NOT the result of some natural progression and didnt just happen … our entire built up 'modern' world including 'technological advancement' is the result of powers that seek to control and be the 'head ruler' of the world .. anything 'allowed' to exist has to serve them and their purpose … but we enable and allow them to get away with their 'designs' to a large extent by being deceived into thinking everything is a natural progress and this or that thing or people is a threat to 'our way of life' so we must attack it ..
@yazzypha2196
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Call me crazy but they’re talking about God and the deception that the Devil has been programming into the world. …interesting how they try to scientifically make sense of God. Just have faith!!!
@stefal22
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
He definitely loves his psychedelic drugs and in a twisted sense of irony he shares his last name with the inventor of lsd.
@Systemoverridegaming
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Wild interpretations of science theories u have, to fit your story.
@alfacentauri3617
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 pm
"New" (c)age woo-woo bs
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