Donald Hoffman: Is Reality an Illusion?

Donald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He earned his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in Quantitative Psychology, and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Computational Psychology. He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.” (2019). He has a TED Talk titled “Do We See Reality as It Is?". In addition to his positions at UC Irvine, Hoffman has been a guest lecturer at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung at Universität Bielefeld in Germany (The Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University). He has received awards from the American Psychological Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the Chopra Foundation, and from the students of UC Irvine. Hoffman has also been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Foundation, the Faggin Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Defence.

EPISODE LINKS:
- Donald's Website: https://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/
- Donald's Books: https://tinyurl.com/54yd4bxr
- Donald's Publications: https://tinyurl.com/zdauxt27
- Donald's TED Talk: https://youtu.be/oYp5XuGYqqY

TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) - Introduction
(0:35) - Psychophysics
(05:56) - Evolution & veridical reality
(10:21) - Fitness payoff functions & homomorphisms
(20:27) - Space-Time does not exist
(32:24) - Take it (Space-Time) seriously, not literally
(42:20) - Interface theory of perception (ITP)
(49:08) - Conscious realism & Conscious Agents (CA) theory
(58:00) - Morals and meaning-making
(1:07:06) - Markovian dynamics, entropy & time
(1:14:34) - Universal Darwinism
(1:19:19) - Gödel's incompleteness theorems
(1:26:21) - The notion of life, the self & neuroscience
(1:36:03) - Donald's author/philosopher recommendations
(1:54:13) - Donald's views on religion
(2:02:39) - Conclusion

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