"Reality Check" (Part 2) with Adam Zbegner

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Adam Zbegner (PART 2) is a father, husband, and intellectual in recovery. We became friends over twenty years ago from our involvement in a recovery community. We have spent many hours chatting, reviewing books, music, and playing Risk (The Game of Global Domination). Today we meet to discuss a book we decided to read and review this winter titled "The Case Against Reality" How Evolution hid the truth from our eyes by Donald D. Hoffman. See Links Below.
BOOK ON AMAZON:
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ADonald+Hoffman&s=relevancerank&text=Donald+Hoffman&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth?

Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not an objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.

Ever since Homo sapiens walked the earth, natural selection has favored perception that hides the truth a

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Chapter

1. Adam talks about the nature of existence in the universe. (00:00:00)

2. The transit of self vs. the possibility of self. (00:09:50)

3. A solution to a problem without thought. (00:19:54)

4. Prayer as an interruption to rumination (00:30:53)

5. What does it mean to become more humanistic? (00:39:43)

6. Why he’s not very social and not ambitious in the sense of making things happen. (00:44:50)

7. What is recovery to you? (00:53:26)

8. The practice of catholicism is attractive to him. (01:00:41)

9. What’s the purpose of believing in free will? (01:09:15)

10. What would the premise of Wittgenstein's work be? (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) (01:19:10)