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An In Depth Conversation With Donald Hoffman | Truth & Consciousness, Evolution & Spacetime - #14
*Correction: Donald Hoffman is currently a Professor at Emeritus University.
Donald D. Hoffman is a Full Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Emeritus. He is the author of Visual Intelligence, as well as over one hundred scholarly articles on various aspects of human perception and cognition. He received a distinguished Distinguished Scientific Award of American Psychological Association for early career research into visual perception, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences. His TED Talk entitled “Do we see reality as it is?” has been viewed over 2.5 million times. In this interview we discuss his latest book, The Case Against Reality.
Buy The Case Against Reality:
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NMRRJ48/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Against-Reality-audiobook/dp/B07VL5TCVF/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Case+Against+Reality&qid=1601548662&sr=8-1
We discuss:
Evolutionary Game Theory and the relationship between Truth and our brains
Simulation Theory
What the sceptic think of Professor Hoffman’s theory of Truth
Space-time & Quantum Mechanics
Whether mathematics and logic are grounded in truth
Whether the Scientific method can ascertain reality
Theory of conscious agents
Free Will
Holographic Universe
Natural Selection
Presentism vs Eternalism
Meditation
What keeps Professor Hoffman awake at night
Meaning of life
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By Mohammad Nemati*Correction: Donald Hoffman is currently a Professor at Emeritus University.
Donald D. Hoffman is a Full Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Emeritus. He is the author of Visual Intelligence, as well as over one hundred scholarly articles on various aspects of human perception and cognition. He received a distinguished Distinguished Scientific Award of American Psychological Association for early career research into visual perception, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences. His TED Talk entitled “Do we see reality as it is?” has been viewed over 2.5 million times. In this interview we discuss his latest book, The Case Against Reality.
Buy The Case Against Reality:
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NMRRJ48/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Against-Reality-audiobook/dp/B07VL5TCVF/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Case+Against+Reality&qid=1601548662&sr=8-1
We discuss:
Evolutionary Game Theory and the relationship between Truth and our brains
Simulation Theory
What the sceptic think of Professor Hoffman’s theory of Truth
Space-time & Quantum Mechanics
Whether mathematics and logic are grounded in truth
Whether the Scientific method can ascertain reality
Theory of conscious agents
Free Will
Holographic Universe
Natural Selection
Presentism vs Eternalism
Meditation
What keeps Professor Hoffman awake at night
Meaning of life
Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the episode!
Support us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/LittleBrainsBigTopics
You can find us on:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/
https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/
https://twitter.com/big_topics
https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166