Attachment to spacetime objects and the ego-self is suffering; all the things we fight over, kill for, and build reputations around—cars, houses, money, status—are ephemeral data structures that don't persist when unobserved, yet we live in constant illusion about their permanence and importance
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Donald HoffmanEvidence Quote
“all the things that we invest our El in we fight over we kill each other over we have wars over these are all it's it's like people in a virtual reality simulation right and and there's this this Porsche and we all see the Porsche well where that Porche exists when I look at it I turn my headset and I look at it”
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Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293— Lex FridmanCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:10:10 PM
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