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

This is not a philosophical thought experiment. It is the conclusion forced upon science bydecades of hard evidence.Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman used evolutionary game theory to prove mathematicallythat perceiving reality as it actually is would be, in the precise technical sense, evolutionarilyfatal. Quantum experiments conducted by Nobel laureates show that the observer doesn'tmerely witness reality — it participates in creating it. Einstein's relativity transformed time from auniversal 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'sfurthest 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 whatthey show you· How a single quantum experiment demolished the idea that the past is fixed andunchangeable· 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, butbits· What all of this means for consciousness, free will, and the nature of existenceWritten without jargon, grounded entirely in peer-reviewed science, and propelled by theconviction that the most radical ideas are the ones actually true, The Illusion of the Real is ajourney to the edge of what we know — and the beginning of something far stranger.For readers of Carlo Rovelli, Brian Greene, and Donald Hoffman. Read more