Brain, Reality and Consciousness

Biology, Physics, Chemistry. 23/09/10

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This is a conversation with Donald Hoffman, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is an author of three books, including The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. Here we talk about splitting the consciousness, evolution and reality, modern theories of consciousness, conscious realism and Interface theory of perception.


About the guest

  • 00:00:00 Introduction

  • 00:01:44 Early career

  • 00:06:29 Francis Crick's contribution in neuroscience

  • 00:11:16 Splitting the consciousness

  • 00:16:06 Perception and Vitalism

  • 00:21:34 Evolution, perception and reality

  • 00:38:51 Space-time is doomed!

  • 00:48:51 Consciousness is fundamental or emergent?

  • 00:56:53 What do we perceive? Is consciousness an illusion?

  • 01:02:53 Using technology to perceive reality

  • 01:06:48 Theory of consciousness

  • 01:19:37 Consciousness and complexity in the universe

  • 01:33:23 Future technology to perceive reality

  • 01:36:42 Thinking of reality beyond space-time

  • 01:39:54 Future of neuroscience

  • 01:44:32 Criticism about Don's work

  • 01:50:15 Evolution doesn't produce reality-perceiving species

  • 01:53:54 New science to observe the reality

  • 01:59:04 Thank you!

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