Donald Hoffman

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Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Research: Visual perception, evolutionary psychology, consciousness, AI.

Irvine, CA traceinstitute.org Joined May 2010

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Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman Nov 2

I look forward to exploring consciousness as a fundamental aspect of reality (and spacetime as just a headset used by some conscious agents) with the Institute of Noetic Sciences on Friday, November 13, at 11am PT. @IONSonline, @noeticsciences

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noetic.org Consciousness and Its Spacetime Headset – ConnectIONS Live What if spacetime emerges from consciousness? Donald Hoffman explores a theoretical framework where consciousness is primary, offering new insights into perception, agency, and the nature of reality.

Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman Oct 28

Brian Muraresku and I discuss how human understanding of the relationship between consciousness and the physical world has evolved over the millennia, and why all current physicalist theories still fail to explain even one specific conscious experience.

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www.youtube.com "The Real Reason Neuroscience Has Explained ZERO Conscious Experien... Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman (The Case Against Reality) and B...

Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman Oct 24

“Pollan joins Christof Koch, a leading researcher on the neuroscience of consciousness, and moderator Shayla Love, a science journalist, for a conversation about consciousness and what psychedelics can — and cannot — reveal about it”

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www.youtube.com Michael Pollan and Christof Koch talk psychedelics and consciousness During a psychedelic experience in his garden, Michael Pollan becam...

Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman Oct 22

Here is a technical conversation, with Mike Levin's lab a few months ago, on the recursive trace logic and multi-scale collective intelligence.
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www.youtube.com A Multiscale Logic of Collective Intelligence" by Donald Hoffman and... This is a ~1.5 hour talk + discussion, titled "A Multiscale Logic o...

Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman Oct 21

“... if all possible events are always realized simultaneously...how do the specific quantum probabilities that we observe ... arise?”

scientificamerican.com/article/why-we…—the%20Many%20Worlds%20hypothesis—offers%20a%20radical%20solution&_kx=1_sInfBwwVG_RB2xxefMwYEvnPQxRmw8Tsdu-7dHIXc.WEer5A

www.scientificamerican.com Why we probably live in a quantum multiverse The once-fringe quantum Many Worlds theory now seems much more likely