Jeffrey Kripal: "We’re set up to win, not to know." 🛸👽 In conversation with Jesse Michels, Rice University religious studies professor Jeffrey Kripal explains that human senses may filter out deeper layers of reality because perceiving them offered no evolutionary advantage. "Some forms of knowledge are secret. They’re esoteric by nature. I don’t think it’s a matter of data. I think it’s a matter of cognition." He highlights neuroscientist Don Hoffman’s idea that "fitness beats truth." "We...