Dr. James Cooke
This episode is a conversation with Donald Hoffman. Don is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine and author of The Case Against Reality. We talk about his interface theory of perception and his worldview of conscious realism and its impressive implications.
Topics and timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Scientific background & corresponding with Francis Crick
7:31 What got Don interested in consciousness?
13:14 Don’s background in meditation
19:15 Defining consciousness & the hard problem
22:32 Does only consciousness exist? The death of spacetime
32:17 Do we see reality as it is?
38:41 What happens to objects when we don’t perceive them?
42:57 How do conscious agents interact if time is an illusion?
43:58 Evolution shapes us to perceive fitness payoffs rather than truth
53:32 Is mathematics an objective feature of reality?
1:00:24 Is there a combination problem for conscious agents?
1:06:26 Are inanimate objects made of conscious agents?
1:10:36 Brains don’t exist.
1:14:51 Don explains DMT entity encounters, near-death experiences and paranormal experiences.
1:19:53 Opening pandora’s box..controlling reality itself through technology.
1:23:02 Does free will exist?
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We live in a world filled with suffering, where attempts to help have been split into largely separate scientific and spiritual communities. As a spiritually engaged neuroscientist I hope to communicate how these seemingly separate world views can be reconciled. I produce weekly videos on topics at the intersection of neuroscience and wellbeing, including consciousness, meditation and psychedelic science.
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Neuroscientist, writer & speaker, focusing on perception, meditation, psychedelics, mental health and wellbeing.
PhD in Neuroscience, Oxford University
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MA in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
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My Personal Conclusions about who we are all from many sources "We Are All One Consciousness" for the following reasons:
1. In this world everything must have a cause, so that something exists because of something else, as well as ourselves.
2. It will be very saturating / boring if we have only one physical form in this world.
3. It will be very saturating / boring if all human beings have the exact same physical form behavior.
4. Try to imagine emptying all the physical things around us only the remnants of humanity, then eliminating all human beings leaving only their memories, then removing all their memories leaving only their consciousness, then connecting that consciousness, feel who we are ??.
5. Body, mind, feelings, emotions and everything in this world is always changing, so what never changes ??, that is our true self, which is true consciousness. If everything changes2 / moves who observes, there must be something fixed to be able to observe.
6. All human beings communicate with each other is the beginning of the beginning / the future of human beings unite, only electronic devices today can unite all human beings, one day the device is implanted in the human mind and eventually man will open all access to his mind.
7. Our body is a group / accumulation of memory accumulated brought from the beginning of the birth of the first human in the world through continuous DNA binding.
8. Twins are born at the same time, what if all human beings are born at the same time ??. What happens if the birth of all human beings is not influenced by the dimensions of space and time ??
9. The twins are identical to A and B, if the whole memory of A is copied to B, what is the difference ??
10. The law of attraction (law of attraction) that our minds will attract whatever we think, because we are all like one part of the body.
11. Like some of the video recordings of ourselves there is a video as a vocalist, a video as a violinist, as a pianist, as a drummer, etc. The video2 is made into one in one video then it will produce a more interesting orchestra, something new and more productive. our world.
12. Man's greatest enemy is himself, at this time man is fighting against himself. By believing that we are all one, then the ego will fade because there is no difference between us.
13. That is why the teachings of religion command us to be grateful and beneficial to many, If you are hurting others you are actually hurting yourself, just as if you are doing good to others you are actually doing good to yourself.
14. Could it be that we are all dreaming and our dreams meet each other at the same frequency in parallel. Have you ever, when sleeping dreamed of moving roles as someone else, it is because we are all one.
15. We are not immortal as human beings so that we have time for us to scroll through all of life.
16. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience" ~ Stephen Covey, Have you ever felt that our age is too short, could our consciousness be immortal ?.
17. We are one, only the role is different, the memory block between life is what makes people feel different / separate. Just by brainwashing / erasing his memory then someone will be a different person but his consciousness actually remains the same. One consciousness experiences various perspectives of reality.
18. The lucky thing for us is … awareness is always towards / seeking / having intentions / desires towards good / positive / happiness despite experiencing various mistakes.
19. When we die the body and memory are destroyed, how can we remember ever being dead. Even a few years ago your real body was lost by being replaced by new cells you don't remember.
20. Why do we have to die? ", When we are told to die, later this eternal question will be asked again and we will always be there." The world is a sustainable life".
21. In the beginning we were one, but split through a big explosion or bigbang to become different and separate as it is now, but we are provided with a sense of love for us to be able to be reunited later.
22. There is only us and the mirror of ourselves in this world, yet there is another world out there.
23. We will always smile happily seeing each other as ourselves "How beautiful I am" seeing a different self.
24. If all consciousness is told now that they are all one if the experience gained is enough, the consciousness designed from the beginning is so different that there is so much intrigue, consciousness is created differently so that when it comes together it has an incredible consciousness experience.
25. We are indeed alone in this universe, but there are still many other universes with their own laws of nature.
26. Have you ever felt to come to a place that has never been visited but feel familiar with that place, as if we have lived in that place sometime.
27. The world is like a script of a story that is being written by the author, sometimes changed at the beginning, sometimes changed in the middle, sometimes changed at the end it all depends on us as writers, and every story has wisdom that can be taken as a lesson.
28. Hair grows on its own, heart beats on its own, blood flows on its own, ideas emerge on its own, etc., are we involved ??.
29. Imagine today there was an event that caused only you to live in this world, then who are all the people yesterday ??.
30. "If Quantum Mechanism cannot surprise you, then you do not yet understand Quantum Physics. Everything we have considered real all this time, turns out to be unreal." ~ Niels Bohr.
31. In the scale of quantum physics we are all connected to each other, even in double gap experiments proving that particles change when observed or in other words awareness is able to change reality, this has been repeatedly proven by Nobel laureate in Physics.
32. Everything we experience by our senses will eventually only be an electrical impulse in the brain, is it all real ??. We are beings who realize that we are conscious.
33. We are closer than the veins of his neck.
He breathes some of His spirit on you.
Knowing oneself means knowing one's God.
Indeed, we will return to HIM. You are far I am far, you are near I am near.
I am everywhere.
Before the existence of this world there was no material other than Him.
The True Spirit is only One, the Creator.
I agree with your prejudice.
34. Whether the Creator is only tasked with creating, is it possible that the creator does not want to try the results of his creation through another perspective.
35. There is no reincarnation, it is possible that our consciousness is synchronized and evenly distributed at the speed of light through energy, and that is why we need sleep, that is why we are often not aware of something, ourselves are like some chess pieces played by a player, that's why if we moving at the speed of light we can penetrate the dimensions of space and time, when we die then wake up and we will regain consciousness as humans.
36. Have we ever had a problem and suddenly someone came to provide a solution to the problem we are experiencing, as if someone was sent by the universe to help us in solving the problem, which is actually our own awareness that sends that person to us.
37. A thousand years ago did human beings see, hear and be trapped in their hearts about current technological advances ??. If we all tend to sin (damage) then it will be the world of hell, if we all tend to do good then it will be the world of heaven.
38. Knowledge learns objects, God who created our consciousness, it is impossible for God to be the object of knowledge.
39. It is not possible for human creation which is only in the form of words / symbols to represent true truth.
40. Is there a meaning of being without consciousness ?? then we are adventurers of this existence.
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41. The life of the world is just a game and a joke, the one who wins the game of the world is the one who finds his true self.
42. When the existence of the world ends we will know everything.
43. My consciousness undergoes a very extraordinary life experience, feeling life experience with different forms and different places even though in fact my consciousness is always the same, wow .. I was surprised !! how wide I am.
44. Consciousness in fact does not know the concept of time, consciousness can experience / undergo into another physical form because the dimension of time can be penetrated by consciousness, as when we imagine we can act as anyone without time bound, because in this universe time can in fact materialize free, time can move straight, curved, rotate, etc. Our time travel is when our consciousness moves to a new physical experience.
45. We are an awareness, a concept that is able to answer various things.
46. Remember when you were going to leave, you were worried about losing me ??, calm down .. I was everywhere and we would always be able to meet again, believe me.
47. Without searching what is the difference between us in this world and us in a dream while sleeping just passing by without meaning.
48. In conclusion, whatever role we play, it is all our own design, so just enjoy.
49. I never said that self is God, I thought that self is one consciousness, God should be higher and perfect than consciousness.
50. God created us to be Happy, so do not disappoint God. Understand it and be Shining.
Inspired by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtT8pWIYL4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
What about dreams? What whould they be, technically?
Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
Somebody must convince Hoffman to try psilocybin, lsd, dmt!!!
Exponential Technology ☆ Singularity ☆ Cognitive Neuroscience ♡ Conscious Realism….Nano Nano….
God put those 🦴 there to test are faith. We are born out of black holes, are linguistic comprehension is not developed enough. I keep hearing DMT to get direct down load ??. I won’t do it because there’s never coming back from a rewired brain.
What is evolution then and what are genes and where and over which time do they unfold – if not in space-time ?
I was just thinking to myself yesterday "I wonder if James Cooke has interviewed Donald Hoffman yet"… lo and behold
Look after ur heath Hoffman stop over doing it all in gd time this ant ur frist nore ur last life or span
Consciousness? Reality?
Have you ever seen a toddler eat ice cream while sleeping?
Have you ever seen a fetus peeing in a mother's uterus?
These are realities of Consciousness.
Vedas in contemporary language!!
Does the sun create the photons, or does photons create the sun……?!
The answer to this question its obvious, and the answer concludes the question about objective reality versus virtual reality
quite easy……
His theory of free will is about how we form free societies by forming free social groups.
This guy is too hung up on consciousness as a thing vs perception of object or objective reality, awareness of subjective being…
Mathematics is a language because it is based in symbolic representation and set information formed by rules which can be passed between organisms.
The man who shall change or lives forever…
Spinning particles in an accelerator may tell you about microphysical particles but not how an automobile works. Likewise it will not tell you how a brain creates reality and consciousness. A human brain may have us see consciousness as fundamental or the complexity of brains creates appearances. The basic appearance we plumb scientifically are fundamental fields and forces. Trivial that we think consciousness is fundamental since the brain is made from those same particles<—fields + forces.
4thCentury: Was Jesus a man. Was Jesus a god. Was Jesus both man and his?
20th Century: Is an electron a particle. Is an electron a wave. Is an electron both particle and wave?
It's the human mind as they say.
THE DEEPER REALITY HE TALKS ABOUT IS THE "NON PHYSICAL REALITY" OUR NATURAL REALITY OUR "HOME" THIS REALITY THIS PHYSICAL REALITY IS SOMEWHERE WE COME TO DO A JOB , AND WHEN IT'S DONE WE RETURN BACK HOME TO THE NON PHYSICAL. .
WHAT THE END GOAL IS FOR THIS 3D REALITY IS BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION WHILE WE ARE STUCK IN THESE VEHICLES, BUT ONCE WE LEAVE IT, WE WILL BE BACK TO OUR NATURAL FORM..
WTF is up with the audio? Or, are both of these guys whisper talkers.
Thank to u too! I find it to be neo science that is the fondation of a beautiful Revolution in science. 👩🏽🚀🙈🙉
« Larger Consciousness Système ». 👩🏽🚀🙈🙉. « Individuated Unit Of Consciousness ». Remind me something
Consciousness really can't be measured by the time you observe it's changed to something else as chemical reactions like taste or smell. The true AI is not measurable it's not always easy to find out what it means as far as programming language " P.L " can't be truly understood by measured definition if you are able to make a difference between one and another one will always change .
What's with the messenger dings in the background? i feel like that's so rude when you're doing an interview. At least kill the sounds, if you're not going to shut it off completely.
Are you Mandela Effected?
Consciousness: Ground of being.
Lovely discussion with Dr Hoffman. Few questions: 1) regarding comments about Godel’s incompleteness and Omniscience not being possible. May be there is deeper real estate that does not share our limitations. 2) May be metaphor of virtual reality is not valid as Colours on computer screen are not produced by Codes. Codes are arbitrary. So, here Space Time is more fundamental than Codes. This is what I am coming at.