
Donald Hoffman's Interviews

Why the World Isn’t What It Seems – Professor Donald Hoffman on Consciousness and Reality
Don Hoffman is a cognitive scientist and author of The Case Against Reality. His central idea is bold: what we see isn’t reality — it’s a user interface. Evolution shaped us to survive, not to see the truth. If the world isn’t as it seems, what does that say about chasing status, possessions, or approval? What actually
Donald Hoffman On Free Will, Positive Geometries of Consciousness & Spacetime
Will physics ever be able to explain consciousness? What if our entire understanding of reality is just an illusion shaped by evolution? Could the universe be a sophisticated virtual reality created by our own minds for our own good? And does free will exist after all? Joining me today to explore these profound questi
Consciousness vs The Ruliad | Stephen Wolfram Λ Donald Hoffman
In this episode Stephen Wolfram and Donald Hoffman discuss their competing frameworks for understanding reality and consciousness. Wolfram introduces the Ruliad, a computational multiverse that generates all possible mathematical structures, while Hoffman argues that consciousness is fundamental and that we only percei
5 Breakthrough Discoveries That Prove Reality Is A Lie! (Discover the Truth) | Donald Hoffman PT 2
Welcome back to part two with Donald Hoffman. In this episode, we take a deep exploration into the nature of reality, consciousness, and the very fabric of spacetime itself. Donald Hoffman challenges our conventional understanding of the world, proposing revolutionary ideas that our perceptions are mere virtual realiti

Donald Hoffman — Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life
Professor Donald Hoffman is a cognitive neuroscientist and the author of more than 90 scientific papers and three books, including Visual Intelligence and The Case Against Reality. He is best known for his theory of consciousness, which combines evolutionary theory with mathematics to make a compelling case that the re
Reality, God, Consciousness | Donald Hoffman Λ Philip Goff
Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist, and philosopher Philip Goff explore consciousness, perception, evolution, and panpsychism, questioning what is real. Their conversation probes the limits of neuroscience, the nature of reality, and the possibility of infinite consciousness.- 00:00 - Intro- 02:46 - Goff’s World Vie
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