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Donald Hoffman a cognitive psychologist and Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
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0:00 Introduction
0:35 Hoffman's thought on the state of the country during COVID and what it entails about his theories
2:51 Why he meditates for 3 hours daily, and what type of practice it is
7:26 Hoffman's diet and health habits
9:52 On computational psychology (Hoffman's initial background)
13:05 Outlining (technically) the conscious agent model, and the motive force behind the lettering
16:41 Consciousness as primary to Being, as the impediment for rationalists
26:50 Why neural correlates aren't *just* correlates, but instead can play causal role (playing devil's advocate) and the limits of the "virtual reality" metaphor
38:44 Nima Armani Hamed's amplituhedron, and consciousness
40:23 Local hidden variables / realism may be saved, via loopholes in Bell's theorem
47:46 The assumption of uniform probability of fitness functions on cyclic groups, etc. is a problem for a theory that says our perceptions are non-veridical (ie. that they don't match "reality")
1:01:44 Evolution entails that we don't see the truth / reality as it is
1:05:10 On the over simplification of evolutionary models (outputting down to the Real Line of dimension 1 without further structure)
1:09:17 The intensity of meditation, and fear of letting go / fear of the unknown
1:15:25 "Illusions are failures to guide adaptive behavior."
1:16:41 The various philosophical theories on truth (correspondence, pragmatic, deflationary, etc.)
1:27:20 Spacetime as a data compression tool for conscious agents
1:32:39 On the nature of causality
1:37:50 How is reality objective, when in Hoffman's model it's predicated exclusively on subjective agents
1:40:00 What is "you"? What is "identity"? What is the "self"? (Eastern religions vs Western religions)
1:50:15 How does Free Will fit into a stochastic model?
1:58:59 Douglas Hofstadter's "strange loop" model of consciousness & Tononi's Integrated information theory vs. Donald Hoffman's
2:14:37 Where God fits into all of this, as well as Hoffman's definition of God
2:21:22 What happens when you die?
2:28:38 Gödel's incompleteness theorem's implications for Hoffman's model
2:34:35 John Vervaeke's other forms of knowledge which aren't "propositional"
2:37:45 Landauer's limit (fastidious critiques)
2:41:29 On the moon not existing when you don't look at it
2:48:06 Do you see the same color red that I see? (and other experiences / qualia)
2:51:31 The paradox of pursuing truth, though truth is inimical (relative to fitness)
2:56:44 Where does Deepak Chopra take Hoffman's message too far + what Jesus meant by "I am the truth / the way / the life"
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Donald Hoffman on the fundamental nature of consciousness (MASSIVE technical analysis) [Reposted] | Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
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