#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine and author of
The Case Against Reality. Please support this podcast by checking
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman Donald's Website:
http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/ Documents & Articles: 1. Could a
Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?:
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268
2. Conscious Agent Networks:
https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/CA-circuits-CSR-rev2.pdf 3. The
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument in Quantum Theory:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-epr/ Books: 1. The Case
Against Reality: https://amzn.to/3MhW4Wt 2. Vision:
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:04)
- Case against reality (19:33) - Spacetime (43:57) - Reductionism
(1:04:23) - Evolutionary game theory (1:32:46) - Consciousness
(2:28:06) - Visualizing reality (2:43:23) - Ephemerality of life
(2:51:48) - Simulation theory (2:57:30) - Difficult ideas (3:12:32)
- Love (3:16:07) - Advice for young people (3:18:26) - Meaning of
life