Podcast Episodes featuring Donald Hoffman
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Beyond Us: Competition with Donald Hoffman
Philosophy For Our Times - February 12, 2021 13:12 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 260 ratingsToday we bring you the second episode of Beyond Us, an all-new series made in association with Essentia Foundation. Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes Evolution favours cooperation as well as competition. But to what extent is human co...
Episode 105: Donald Hoffman
Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell - February 09, 2020 15:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 671 ratingsThe cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman and I question the concept of reality, the meaning of space and time, the ability of scientists to show us the truth, and the lies our fathers told us. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/105/
Dr. Donald Hoffman, Materialism’s Final Death Blow? |436|
Skeptiko – Science at the Tipping Point - January 07, 2020 14:31 - 1 hour ★★★ - 713 ratingsDr. Donald Hoffman has proposed a rigorous mathematical model of consciousness that leaves materialism out of the equation. photo by: Skeptiko I have an interview coming up in a minute with Dr. Donald Hoffman, who is, well, he’s a really, really smart University of California Irvine professor, k...
Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality
The TED Interview - November 13, 2019 05:05 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsAccording to cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, our brains are showing us a "hacked" version of reality. His revolutionary new way of thinking about consciousness combines the study of evolution with insights into brain activity in an attempt to solve the mysteries behind how we percei...
First Principles Thinking & Secret Mastermind of Brain Scientists - Donald Hoffman, Cognitive Scientist
MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - November 11, 2019 10:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsIn a follow-up to our previous episode, my guest today is again cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, author of the book "The Case Against Reality". In this addendum to the previous episode, we explore how Don's First Principles Thinking enabled his remarkably original theory on reality (covered...
The Case Against Reality (w/Prof. Donald Hoffman)
The ZDoggMD Show - November 10, 2019 02:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsWe have NO CLUE how consciousness emerges from 3 pounds of wet goo. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman takes us deep into his research that makes a bold claim: we’ve been attacking the problem BACKWARDS. The implications of his theories just may change everything you think you know about reality ...
Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality (Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Evolution)
MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - November 05, 2019 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsMy guest today is cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, author of the book "The Case Against Reality". Don has been making waves lately in a range of scientific fields with a theory of reality that splinters all of our preconceived notions. What if everything we thought was real -- the physical wo...
Understanding Perception, Spirituality, And Consciousness With Donald Hoffman
Take The Lead - November 04, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsOur perceptions accurately tell us true statements about the world. In this episode, host Diane Hamilton talks with Cognitive Sciences expert Dr. Donald Hoffman about perception, spirituality, consciousness, and AI. Dr. Hoffman received his PhD from MIT and joined the faculty at UC Irvine in 198...
The Reality Illusion | Donald Hoffman, Maria Baghramian, Hilary Lawson
Philosophy For Our Times - September 10, 2019 08:59 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 260 ratingsLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes Seeing is believing, yet cognitive scientists seem to have uncovered these views as incorrect. Evolution led us to perceive what is best for survival and it turns out this has little to do with what we ...
78. Dr. Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes
The Michael Shermer Show - August 13, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 361 ratingsIn his new book, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes, the U.C. Irvine cognitive scientist Dr. Donald Hoffman challenges the leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality. How can it be possible that the world we see is not ob...
Mind Meld 170 | Dr. Donald Hoffman | Is Reality a Lie?
THIRD EYE DROPS - August 07, 2019 16:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsFor rewards and podcast extras, become a patron Is our reality a lie? Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld to chat about his new book, The Case Against Reality, and why everything we think of as 'real' may be no more than a convenient illusion. Don Hoffman is a Professor of Cognitiv...
What If We're Wrong About Reality? w/Donald Hoffman
The ZDoggMD Show - August 28, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsThis podcast will melt your brain, which could be OK because neurons are just symbolic representations of a deeper reality according to our guest, Professor Donald Hoffman. In this wide-ranging discussion we talk about visual perception (and ALL perception) as a construction, rather than a recons...
Mind Meld 105 | Piercing the Veil of Reality with Dr. Donald Hoffman
THIRD EYE DROPS - April 20, 2018 00:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsFor rewards and podcast extras, become a patron Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to decode the koan of reality! Don Hoffman is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. His chief areas of inquiry include perception, the illusory nature of reality, free will and the development of a scientific...
#4: Donald Hoffman - Rethinking Reality
The Think Grow Podcast - March 01, 2018 23:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 441 ratingsDonald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Irvine. He has been studying visual perception for over 40 years. His research has led him to some intriguing and compelling theories about our ability (or inability) to see a true picture of reality and even about the n...
Ep. 75 - Do We Perceive Reality? | Dr. Donald Hoffman
Patterson in Pursuit - September 17, 2017 06:20 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 105 ratingsDo we see reality as it is? Or, are we stuck inside our own mental representations of the world? My guest this week is Dr. Donald Hoffman, who believes that there's a 0% chance that we accurately perceive the world. He believes that mental phenomena - consciousness, experience, qualia - is the...
Mind Meld 74 |The Case Against Reality with Dr. Donald Hoffman
THIRD EYE DROPS - September 06, 2017 19:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsCrowd-sponsor the show and hear more musings with Dr. Hoffman on our Patreon page Dr. Donald Hoffman is a professor of cognitive science at UC Irvine. His chief areas of inquiry include perception, the nature of reality and the development of a scientific model for consciousness. His upcomin...
Ep. 533: Donald Hoffman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following - March 03, 2017 03:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratingsMy guest today is Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine. He studies how our visual perception, guided by millions of years of natural selection, authors every aspect of our everyday reality. His research is about uncovering the underlying secrets of human perception. Donald has disc...
090 - Reality - Donald Hoffman
You Are Not So Smart - December 02, 2016 05:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality? For our guest in this episode, cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, that's his day job. Hoffman has developed a new theory of consciousness that, should it prove true, may rearrange our understanding of reality itself. Listen as Hoffman ta...
Ep: 10 Donald Hoffman - Do We See Reality As It Really Is?
Cosmos In You - Guide to Inner Space - July 28, 2015 00:47 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsIn this episode we discuss: *The need to question all assumptions we make about reality *How humans differ from machines *Holographic theory of black holes and what it possibly means for humanity *Current theories around consciousness *How our visual perception creates every aspect of our everyda...
Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman
TED Talks Science and Medicine - June 11, 2015 15:37 - ★★★★ - 742 ratingsCognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.
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