Interesting stuff. I don’t have patience for talks (I’m installing new version of Blender as want to run an add-on that does body morphing (and I really don’t know Blender well at all as I always hated the UI), so while I was waiting for it to finish installing, I looked at a couple of things by Donald Hoffman
His argument hinges on something that makes for a logician to consider a pivot point but in itself is attempting to carry too much weight imo.
“But it’s a logical flaw to think that if we have to take it seriously, we also have to take it literally.”
So, evolutionary fitness gave us the ability to take things seriously. That’s agreeable
But are there arguments that the world as we see/experience it is literally as we see/experience it? Perhaps some but not really.
I’m not sure if it’s called “arguing from extreme” or “generalizing from extreme” but that’s what I’d consider it.
I’m sure he presents a lot of evidence for his case but there are alternatives to “because of this logical flaw, everything I say that follows is more valid than alternative explanations for “literally”.
In short, I see a false dichotomy being presented.
But I may be judging too much from too little but I only had a few minutes — now my thing finished installing and I can get back to my thing 
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