We explore Donald Hoffman's theory that our experience bears no resemblance to actual reality.

References:

Donald Hoffman on reality: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421/

Roger Penrose on consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0

AI progress due mostly to improvement in computation power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me96OWd44q0

Anthropic (not Anthropological) Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Cosmological Natural Selection (Lee Smolin): https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-logic-and-beauty-of-cosmological-natural-selection/

2nd Law of Thermodynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

Heat Death of the Universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

Higgs Boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_Boson

Standard Model of Particle Physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyC68CIEio

Holographic Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klpDHn8viX8

Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mechanics#Copenhagen_interpretation

Outro music: "Moss" by Eric Mulhern