Meditation is necessary practice (3-4 hours a day for 20 years in Hoffman's case) to integrate intellectual understanding of conscious realism with emotional/behavioral acceptance; without this integration, one remains trapped in default physicalism despite intellectual agreement

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Speaker

Donald Hoffman

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I've meditated for 20 years now then I would say averaging 3 or 4 hours a day

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Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293Lex Fridman
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:10:10 PM

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