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Reality and the primacy of Consciousness. An Interview of with Donald Hoffman.
Donald David Hoffman is a Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine and book author. He has joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science.
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 (1989) offers a theory of consciousness and its relationship to physics; Automotive Lighting and Human Vision (2005) applies vision science to vehicle lighting. His book Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See (1998) presents the modern science of visual perception to a broad audience. His 2015 TED Talk, “Do we see reality as it is?” explains how our perceptions have evolved to hide reality from us.[1] His book “The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes” (2019) expands on the TED talk.[not verified in body]
Hoffman has won the Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation. He is slated to deliver the Leibniz Public Lecture at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2017. He has served on the editorial board of the journal Cognition, and contributed for several years to the Edge Annual Question. A complete list of his activities and publications is given in his vita and homepage:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff
In this interview, Professor Hoffman describes his experimentation of sensory perception and its convergence with what was once considered spiritual thinking; that we live in a Universe where it is not matter which is the primary substratum of reality, but Consciousness.
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From a religious point of view, the islamic one more specifically, life is all the photos of an other parallel, spontaneously happening somewhere else (where there is no space and time) these photos are the evidence of our choices, tendencies, traits, actions, in that other non materialistic world. from a non religious point of view, if there is no heaven and hell, we don't need to know the purpose of life, we are just cats.
Where is the rest of the interview?
Like most scientists he's guessing
I think if people all saw what I've seen, they'd discard science as insufficient to explain, not these extra-terrestrial mysteries, but the darkness that affects us in our daily lives. Either they're keeping secrets and emulating magic, or else they're doing real magic. And besides that, which explanation gives the unexplained more limitation?
Poorly disguised anti-science. All observations are theory laden. Our explanations come from within.
Yes, without Consciousness nothing exists. Dreams can seem very real and then there is the deep sleep state, where the world doesn't exist at all, so what makes us think we are awake now?
The interviewer is so incompetent he shouldn't have been allowed to interview this genius.
This may possibly be THE WORST and most unprofessional interviewer I have ever witnessed in my life. Ignorant and rude, with absolutely NO idea how to even produce a simple session. If I was D Hoffman, I wouldve ended the interview.
This interview exposes a very common fallacy among AI and consciousness researchers. The fallacy is a conflation between consciousness and the functioning of mathematical algorithms on microchips. Consequently, it may be the case that consciousness is dependent on design and materials rather than processing power and software.
To illustrate this by analogy, consider the electromagnet. For electromagnets to work, they require specific materials to be organized in very specific ways. In other words, we could design something that looks identical to a working electromagnet in every way, but if the core is made of spruce, it simply won't work. Or we could use all the right materials, but organize them in the wrong way, and it still won't work. Only the right combination of design & materials works.
Similarly, we cannot safely assume that consciousness will emerge from brains made out of different materials that are put together very differently from the biological brains and bodies we are familiar with. It may be the case that consciousness requires biological brains made like ours, or it simply won't happen, and that despite all the outward appearances of an AI, it has no experience of being an AI.
There is no left without right
There is no material with out the immaterial
There is a opposite to everything and you can’t have a singularity (maybe)
Dualism, existence comes in two forms codependent binary and hierarchical constructs (elements forms systems) elements are energy and emotions/sensations every concept you think is a construct, a system. even concepts exists on a axis/binary take a cat for an example and you can reduce it classification down to animal, life, matter, shape ,line dot, of course it there are missing step in between you can define but the point is that is become less complex and more simple (complexity is just and increase in quantity)
I hope you see my question. Are there other senses that we have also part of this theory?
Donald Hoffman often says “I’m probably wrong…”, However, he’s clearly very convinced by the veracity of his conjectures – by the mathematical results of the models & equations etc.. He is coming close to being evangelical. Yet So far he’s only demonstrated what’s possible with words. Question: What are the “payoffs” in evolutionary processes for selecting in favour of the development of a brain that has to totally & continuously recreate the world in every sensible way, rather than one developing out of the direct access to the world it has? Maybe the visual “horsepower”, instead of being expended by the brain in the creation of the world, is actually spent simply on a capacity for seeing it
I don't think Donald is talking about spirituality. I also don't think he insinuating a universal consciousness or that the universe is conscious. I don't think he is implying anything like "cosmic-consciousness. It's more like a proto-consciousness that forms or builds up into the conscious experience of conscious agents (which the proto-consciousness forms as well). Our perception of reality (the desktop user interface) is what I think Einstein meant by the universe is a kind of optical illusion.
Consciousness is very difficult to measure because there is nothing to measure in consciousness ,,, but in order to know that you are conscious you have to stop believing in Santa 🎅 or just keep thinking that you are conscious by not being conscious
I mean how is it possible to spend hours upon hours upon hours reiterating the concept of reality being projected from base reality, without even saying it just like I did, so you're unbelievably stupid, just saying the same talking points over and over and over and over again, with the exact same word per word utterances endlessly
I bet that this guy has nothing to teach me.
I doubt that // Thug life
And what are dreams'??,
Are they just a Right çlick away!!??,
And àlso,
Why do we die!??
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F*@k it!💥
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PERCEIVE THIS!!!
Reality, something has me to say. Infinity climb into reality, what is geometry, since the 1st to follow the 1st, what are you, what is reality, think beyond your see, that's not reality!
Leibniz's monadolgy
Immanel Kant`s "thing in itself" (which can never be perceived) reloaded …..
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Consciousness is fundamental but that is the Divine Consciousness, not individual being's consciousness. The information is upheld in the Divine Consciousness to bring he physical reality into being and sustain it in its existence. So there is an objective reality.
worst interviewer ever lol
Interviewer should stfu and let the expert talk.
Fascinating interview. Glad you posted it even with the volume issues. The mind body discussion suggests to me that it is the physicality of the objective world that is the illusion, not the consciousness as Dennett asserted. Unless you take dennett’s version of consciousness to be the contents of consciousness rather than that which experiences the world.
Darning needles are for repairing holes, crochet hooks are for crocheting so you have proved your point.
If 3D reality is an interface, that begs the question:
What is the purpose of the interface?
David says it is for individuals and creatures and all life forms for their reproductive purposes.
But the interface objects are not real, they do not need to reproduce.
Their reality is in the mind of the user.
The user's consciousness must be present for that reality to come into being.
Their limited lifetime is merely the time over which they serve the purposes of the user who exists outside the physical system we call reality.
I am trying to avoid the use of words like God or spirit, but you can maybe see what I am getting at.
Excellent interview.
The questions are not audible, so I would recommend using titles over the video to show the questions as text.
Thanks.
Ignorant of the topic, has lack of basic understanding and etiquette, doesn't know when to shut up… A truly horrific interviewer.
It begs the question.What is consciousness?
There is currently no language that exists capable of describing this unreachable truth from within our physical existence.
While he covers non-realty and icons quite thoroughly, Donald David Hoffman could spend a few more minutes elaborating on what reality is.
I really like Donald Hoffman's theory of consciousness really bridges the gap between dualists and materialists' really do believe materialism has had its day in the sun. In this nihilistic escapist modern world we live in these bridging theorists have a duty to inform the public in layman's terms, if for any reason alone but to steer them away from nihilism.
Try stepping in front of a moving car thinking your consciousness is primary, not reality. Your brain will be splatter all over the pavement.