Donald Hoffman is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Some of his research interests include visual perception, evolutionary psychology, and the problem of consciousness.

0:00 intro
2:23 background // David Marr’s three levels of analysis
6:20 the interface theory of perception // case against reality
23:38 bias on evolutionary payoff functions?
28:48 spacetime is doomed
31:26 consciousness theories
37:27 the end of reductionism
40:16 the personal experience of the demise of spacetime
49:38 if spacetime is doomed, why go towards consciousness?
57:40 conscious actor model
1:09:57 where does consciousness begin?
1:13:52 the self
1:16:45 cognition
1:20:17 spiritual and contemplative traditions

Donald Hoffman's website: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/

Donald Hoffman Books:
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (2019)
Automotive Lighting and Human Vision (2007)
Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See (1998)
Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception (1989)

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