THE ILLUSION OF REAL: a Guide to Universe That Isn't There

This is not a philosophical thought experiment. It is the conclusion forced upon science by decades of hard evidence. Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman used evolutionary game theory to prove mathematically that perceiving reality as it actually is would be, in the precise technical sense, evolutionarily fatal. Quantum experiments conducted by Nobel laureates show that the observer doesn't merely witness reality - it participates in creating it. Einstein's relativity transformed time from a universal river into a private hallucination. And the holographic principle suggests that our three- dimensional world may be a projection cast by a two-dimensional code on the universe's furthest edge. In The Illusion of the Real, you will discover: - Why your eyes are not windows to the world - they are screens, and evolution chose what they show you - How a single quantum experiment demolished the idea that the past is fixed and unchangeable - What Nobel Prize-winning physicists mean when they say the observer creates reality - Why the universe may be fundamentally made of information - not matter, not energy, but bits - What all of this means for consciousness, free will, and the nature of existence Written without jargon, grounded entirely in peer-reviewed science, and propelled by the conviction that the most radical ideas are the ones actually true, The Illusion of the Real is a journey to the edge of what we know - and the beginning of something far stranger. For readers of Carlo Rovelli, Brian Greene, and Donald Hoffman.

Pagina's: 461, Paperback, Independently published