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Dr. Donald Hoffman is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Hoffman studies consciousness, visual perception and evolutionary psychology using mathematical models and psychophysical experiments. His research subjects include facial attractiveness, the recognition of shape, the perception of motion and color, the evolution of perception, and the mind-body problem. He has co-authored two technical books: Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception, and Automotive Lighting and Human Vision. He is just about to release a new book, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.
In this episode, we talk about how perception (particularly visual perception) works, how it has evolved, and the implications that has to how we deal with “objective reality”. First, Dr. Hoffman explains how he studies the architecture of vision. We discuss the evolutionary rationale behind perception, or how it has evolved – the interface theory of perception. In the second part, we go a little bit metaphysical, and discuss what is reality, and the role that consciousness plays in it.
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01:45 How vision works, and how to study it
09:32 Approaching consciousness from a scientific perspective
11:50 The architecture of visual perception
14:33 Cognitive systems interact with one another
19:39 The evolution of perception
47:35 There’s individual variation in how people perceive reality
50:18 Perception is an interface to reality – the interface theory of perception
1:03:36 What is reality?
1:12:35 Creating virtual worlds
1:17:20 Conscious realism, and a subjective reality
1:23:48 Follow Dr. Hoffman’s work!
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My puzzle is: If everything we perceive and represent is part of the interface of fitness payoffs, why is consciousness outside of this interface? Why is consciousness presumed to be something different? To this end, why is there a hard problem only in the case of consciousness?
Thinking out loud – am I on the right path here?
Consciousness converts information into a physical representation of that information.
Consciousness is a computational processor just like a computer. Consciousness processes mathmatical computations like the brain into 3D visual pictures – sounds like a computer to me.
Our human body – brain and all other organs are then information being constructed into 3D reality by consciousness?
Consciousness / brain constructs a 3 dimensional reality from 2 dimensional information – holographic reality/virtual reality. Fascinating
"spacetime is doomed" ….beautiful
Awesome! eye opening.
Sounds to me like we have a theory here that allows for the existence of DMT entities. Michio Kaku has also said he believes there exists a superhighway of energy beings that can materialize in our frequency of existence….reality is getting very unreal… far out man
"If anything you study takes part inside spacetime then you're studying the interface and not objective reality."
I don't think I can agree with that. Sounds like he's confusing mathematical models with deeper reality.
This one was wild! First time I am hearing about this perspective. Let me check what Sam Harris has to say about this haha
This interview blew my mind. Great stuff!
What an amazing interview. This one goes to the tops for me! Congrats!
You get the best guests! Hoffman is very nice, did you think about interviewing Bernardo Kastrup?
WOW!!! This is a great session. I will share this interview with people who can think in these terms. I recommend to you the TED Talk by April Seth entitled:
"Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality."
I think you will see that we are always filling in the blanks by what we expect. Enjoy the TED Talk.