{"podcast":{"title":"THIRD EYE DROPS","slug":"third-eye-drops-428668","podcast_index_feed_id":428668,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/PHTE5224366695","website_url":"http://www.thirdeyedrops.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/279f89d6-73cd-11f0-9f8b-775892ccddaa/image/ab7c1cf6a1f704edef0b25894e63aa67.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Michael Phillip, SpectreVision Radio","episode_count":539,"summary":"Meld minds with Michael Phillip and his magnificent multidisciplinary guests— Experiencers, artists, scientists, psychologists, authors, spiritual teachers, and more as they muse about life's most compelling questions. Consciousness, UFOs, the phenomenon, the esoteric and more. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevision⁠","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T06:19:19.243637+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/third-eye-drops-428668"},"episode":{"title":"BREAKTHROUGH: Consciousness Creates the Simulation | Dr. Donald Hoffman","slug":"breakthrough-consciousness-creates-the-simulation-dr-donald-hoffman","published_at":"2026-02-17T17:37:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/third-eye-drops-428668/breakthrough-consciousness-creates-the-simulation-dr-donald-hoffman","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/third-eye-drops-428668","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE9660567808.mp3?updated=1771366036","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE9660567808.mp3?updated=1771366036","summary":"Cognitive Scientist, Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld! Are we, as Plato argued thousands of years ago, mistaking shadows on a cave wall for reality? 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership In this conversation with the brilliant Dr. Donald Hoffman, we question whether space-time and the world we experience with our senses is fundamental or merely a shallow projection of something deeper. Drawing on Plato’s cave, physics, cognitive science, mystical traditions, quantum theory, and Hoffman’s own framework of conscious agents, we explore the possibility that reality emerges from consciousness rather than the other way around. Don also shares what could be a mind blowing breakthrough in his theory. What is reality? Will science ever find a final theory of everything? Are we locked inside a simulation designed for survival, not truth? If consciousness transcends space-time, what does that imply about our potential, our perception, our purpose and our fate as beings? We riff on all of this and more in this mind meld. Links for Donald Hoffman: New to Don's work? Start with this TED Talk: https://youtu.be/oYp5XuGYqqY?si=dJJzY05c1koiTYb4 Don's book, The Case Against Reality: https://a.co/d/0aGapviw Don's UC Irvine page: https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/ Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Micha…","meta_description":"Cognitive Scientist, Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld! Are we, as Plato argued thousands of years ago, mistaking shadows on a cave wall for rea…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":9708,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/third-eye-drops-428668/episodes/breakthrough-consciousness-creates-the-simulation-dr-donald-hoffman/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/third-eye-drops-428668/breakthrough-consciousness-creates-the-simulation-dr-donald-hoffman.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}