Donald Hoffman explains why there are intrinsic limits to human perception and consciousness.

Is anything we perceive so-called 'reality'?

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Join us as world-leading cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman discusses his cutting-edge research about consciousness and perception, as well as its astonishing implications for the ultimate nature of reality.

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Donald Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist working at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman's Interface Theory of Perception suggests that, instead of presenting reality as it "really is", our perception is like a desktop interface that has evolved to ensure survival. To advance his theory of consciousness, Hoffman explores cutting edge physics that suggests spacetime is non-fundamental. For Hoffman we must explain consciousness in fundamental terms, beyond spacetime.

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00:00 Introduction
00:40 Spacetime is doomed
03:45 Reductionism is doomed
05:13 Global workspace theory
06:36 The scientific theory of conscious experiences
08:10 Consciousness is stipulated

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