An In Depth Conversation With Donald Hoffman | Truth & Consciousness, Evolution & Spacetime - #14

Little Brains Big Topics

Oct 01, 2020•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 14

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*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.

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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