In 2019, this scientist made a discovery so powerful it could rewrite reality.
His theory says:
• Matter is an illusion
• Time doesn't exist
• Everything is a conscious agent
Some scientists laughed. Some called it pseudoscience.
Then he showed the proof with math:🧵
Dr. Donald Hoffman isn’t a fringe theorist.
He’s a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine
A recipient of the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences
And one of the leading researchers in perception, consciousness, and reality
But what he discovered shocked the scientific world.
Hoffman asked a simple question:
“If evolution made our senses to help us survive…
Why would it show us the *truth* about reality?”
Turns out, it doesn’t.
His lab ran simulations to test this theory.
And the results?
Chilling.
The simulation was simple:
• Species that saw *objective reality*
• Species that saw only *what helped them survive*
Guess who won?
The ones who *ignored* the truth.
Every. Single. Time.
Evolution doesn't care about truth.
It only cares about survival.
This changes *everything*.
If evolution hides the truth...
Then our perception of space, time, and matter is *not* reality.
It’s just a “user interface.”
Like icons on your desktop — simple illusions to help you function.
Not the truth.
In 2019, Hoffman proposed a new model:
**Conscious Realism**
He claims:
• There are no physical objects
• There is no spacetime
• There are only *conscious agents*
And reality emerges from their interactions — like a cosmic social network.
Let that sink in:
You're not a body in space.
You're a *conscious agent* in a vast web of experiences.
Your mind constructs your body.
Your body doesn’t construct your mind.
It flips everything we know upside down.
Even spacetime — the “fabric of reality” — breaks down under Hoffman’s model.
He says:
“Spacetime is doomed.”
And he’s not alone.
Top physicists like Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) agree:
“Spacetime is not fundamental. It’s emergent.”
Why are scientists afraid of Hoffman’s model?
Because it *works*.
It explains quantum phenomena
It predicts conscious behavior
It matches evolutionary data
But most terrifying of all?
It leaves no room for an *objective* universe.
Think about it.
If consciousness is primary
And the physical world is a hallucination...
Then *what* are we living in?
And *who* is behind it?
It’s no longer a physics problem.
It’s a philosophical one.
This is where science meets the edge of the unknown.
Hoffman’s work forces us to ask:
• Is death the end?
• Are we in a simulation?
• Can consciousness shape reality?
Questions no lab is ready to face.
But we must.
Hoffman’s theory turns reality into a mental construct.
Not metaphorically.
Mathematically.
He’s building an equation where *consciousness* is the only primitive.
Everything else — space, time, matter — is derived.
Even the laws of physics.
The interface you’re seeing right now — your body, your phone, this tweet — It’s not the real world.
Just like a folder icon isn’t a real folder.
Just like a VR headset doesn’t show reality.
It only *hides* the truth beneath.
In 2022, Hoffman’s team began modeling this mathematically.
Not woo
Not theory
But hard, peer-reviewed math
They’re using “Markovian kernels” and game theory to prove:
Consciousness, not matter, is the base code of the universe.
The implications?
• You are not a product of the universe
• The universe is a product of *you*
• Your mind is not in your body
• Your mind creates the body
Reality isn’t *out there*
It’s *in here*
So what now?
We can no longer ask “What is the universe made of?”
We must ask:
“What is the mind capable of?”
Because if Hoffman is right...
Then you’ve never seen reality.
You’ve only seen your interface.
You are not stuck.
You're just trapped in an interface
—designed for survival, not for truth.
But there’s a way to *break the illusion*
And reclaim your conscious power
It starts with reprogramming your mind.
Want to escape your own mental matrix?
My ebook *Escape the Mental Matrix* will help you:
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Reprogram your mind
And finally remember who you were before the world told you who to be
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