<p>Sam and Annaka Harris speak with Donald Hoffman about his book "The Case Against Reality." They discuss how evolution has failed to select for true perceptions of the world, his "interface theory" of perception, the primacy of math and logic, how space and time cannot be fundamental, the threat of epistemological skepticism, causality as a useful fiction, the hard problem of consciousness, agency, free will, panpsychism, a mathematics of conscious agents, philosophical idealism, death, psychedelics, the relationship between consciousness and mathematics, and many other topics.</p> <p>If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.</p>

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#178 — The Reality Illusion

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Sam Harris Episodes Around December 11, 2019

#163 — Ricky Gervais

#164 — Cause & Effect

#165 — Journey into Wokeness

#166 — The Plague Years

#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy

#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion

#169 — Omens of a Race War

#170 — The Great Uncoupling

#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult

#172 — Among the Deplorables

#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents

#174 — Life & Mind

#175 — Leaving the Faith

#176 — Knowledge & Redemption

#177 — Psychedelic Science

#178 — The Reality Illusion

#179 — The Unquiet Mind

#180 — Sex & Power

#181 — The Illusory Self

#182 — Unlearning Race

#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality

#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#186 — The Bomb

#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#189 — Wealth & Happiness

#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus?

#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic

#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#193 — Meditation in an Emergency

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