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Presentation by neuroscientist Prof. Donald Hoffman during Essentia Foundation’s 2020 online work conference.
Donald Hoffman is a Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. 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.’ He received a Distinguished Scientific Award of the American Psychological Association for early career research, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences. His writing has appeared in Scientific American, New Scientist, LA Review of Books, and Edge, and his work has been featured in Wired, Quanta, The Atlantic, Ars Technica, National Public Radio, Discover Magazine, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. He has a TED Talk titled ‘Do we see reality as it is?’ Prof. Hoffman is a member of Essentia Foundation’s Academic Advisory Board.
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Great presentation! Essentia Foundation is surely a precious gift to the world and we do need it!
Besides having a theory of Consciousness, learning how to hack space-time might get us to Andromeda Galaxy
I think Rupert Sheldrake might be another quite interesting interviewee
Hoffman predicts we will be able to use science to manipulate space-time. UFO evidence suggests someone is doing this already.
I'd be interested in Bernardo's response to Hoffman saying that making a distinction between living and non-living is a rookie mistake given it is a fundamental aspect of his theory.
Brilliant Ideas from Prof. Donald Hoffman, You need to reach with those ideas to software developers, they will get it in blink of an eye.
27.55 .."so we really got the ability to reverse engineer our interface of space-time will then have the ability to open new portals to rejig our interface to open new portals into this pre-existing realm of conscious agents this is not creating new consciousness it's opening new portals into conscious agents that already exstist,and for what it's worth?I think the answer is yes…"
Woh!!
A very lucid discussion. The fact that we are presented with a graphical interface to increase our survival chance here in spacetime over the ontological truth of reality has a recursive irony to it considering that consciousness research could prove the existence of the afterlife.
I've wanted to see a long discussion between Kastrup and Hoffman for a while, good to see them talking.
I really appreciate the modesty and calmness of Dr. Hoffman. I think anybody, whatever the side on this issue of mind-body, should also try to be so for possibly fruitful discussions and outputs based on rational arguments that would avoid the danger of fanaticism.
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful lecture