Psychologist Donald Hoffman suggests reality is not as it seems. A computer image isn’t that but 1’s and 0’s, similarly we don’t perceive the actual bringing concepts to bear.

For Hoffman perception is like the desktop computer interface, we create the shortcuts. We have always wondered who or what created the world, he claims consciousness creates it. A quote “Conscious realism makes a bold claim: consciousness, not spacetime and its objects, is fundamental reality and is properly described as a network of conscious agents.”

Matter exists as the stage for communication between conscious agents. The world is an epiphenomenon of consciousness. Our perception is primarily visual, hence the world of objects. Donald Hoffman subscribes to Objective Idealism, a branch of Monist theory. This holds that everything is consciousness. For Hoffman, Conscious Realism describes reality, today most are materialists…