{"product_id":"the-illusion-of-the-real-a-guide-to-a-universe-that-isnt-there-9798196823534","title":"The Illusion of the Real: A Guide to a Universe That Isn't There","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Leo Itskovich\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Space Science - Cosmology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a philosophical thought experiment. It is the conclusion forced upon science by\u003cbr\u003edecades of hard evidence.\u003cbr\u003eCognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman used evolutionary game theory to prove mathematically\u003cbr\u003ethat perceiving reality as it actually is would be, in the precise technical sense, evolutionarily\u003cbr\u003efatal. Quantum experiments conducted by Nobel laureates show that the observer doesn't\u003cbr\u003emerely witness reality - it participates in creating it. Einstein's relativity transformed time from a\u003cbr\u003euniversal river into a private hallucination. And the holographic principle suggests that our three-\u003cbr\u003edimensional world may be a projection cast by a two-dimensional code on the universe's\u003cbr\u003efurthest edge.\u003cbr\u003eIn The Illusion of the Real, you will discover: \u003cbr\u003e- Why your eyes are not windows to the world - they are screens, and evolution chose what\u003cbr\u003ethey show you\u003cbr\u003e- How a single quantum experiment demolished the idea that the past is fixed and\u003cbr\u003eunchangeable\u003cbr\u003e- What Nobel Prize-winning physicists mean when they say the observer creates reality\u003cbr\u003e- Why the universe may be fundamentally made of information - not matter, not energy, but\u003cbr\u003ebits\u003cbr\u003e- What all of this means for consciousness, free will, and the nature of existence\u003cbr\u003eWritten without jargon, grounded entirely in peer-reviewed science, and propelled by the\u003cbr\u003econviction that the most radical ideas are the ones actually true, The Illusion of the Real is a\u003cbr\u003ejourney to the edge of what we know - and the beginning of something far stranger.\u003cbr\u003eFor readers of Carlo Rovelli, Brian Greene, and Donald Hoffman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892627685527,"sku":"9798196823534","price":2871.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196823534.webp?v=1781187847","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-illusion-of-the-real-a-guide-to-a-universe-that-isnt-there-9798196823534","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}