Sunday May 15 we will meet at my office in Binghamton at 2 pm for 15 minutes of silent
meditation followed by a discussion of Donald Hoffman’s TED talk “Do
We see Reality as it Is?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY.
Dr. Hoffman is a cognitive psychologist/neuroscientist http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/.
I first discovered his work in a recent article in The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illusion-of-reality/479559/ .
The title of that article is The Case Against Reality. If you would
like to come to this discussion, it would be helpful to watch the 20 minute TED
talk and read the article.
I have been describing the nature of reality as directly
perceived for many years. In this understanding, there is no objective reality
"out there". Nor is there anything solid or substantial "in
here". Many of you have heard me say that it is fascinating that all
physicists and most scientists know beyond any doubt that nothing anywhere in
the universe is actually solid or substantial. Yet very few scientists appear
to draw the logical conclusion, namely, if it is true that nothing is actually
solid, then Who or What am I, exactly? It is fascinating to realize that
contemporary neuroscientists are describing a similar perspective of reality to
the one first revealed experientially to me in 1982.
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