Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More | Brought to you by FreshBooks cloud-based small business accounting software http://freshbooks.com/tim and Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement http://athleticgreens.com/tim

Donald Hoffman ( @donalddhoffman) received a PhD in computational psychology from MIT and is a Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Award of the American Psychological Association and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences.

His writing has appeared in Scientific American, New Scientist, LA Review of Books, and Edge, and his work has been featured in Wired, Quanta, The Atlantic, Ars Technica, National Public Radio, Discover Magazine, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. His TED Talk, titled “Do We See Reality as It Is?,” has almost 4M views.

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00:00 Start
00:32 The Helmholtz Club
06:15 Consciousness defined
15:50 Consciousness research: implications
34:53 Holographic model of the universe
32:28 Possible future technologies
43:53 Conscious agents
01:07:14 Panpsychism
01:14:06 The cosmological polytope
01:21:06 Portals to consciousness
01:37:12 QBism and quantum physics
01:44:51 Current interests
01:51:59 Spiritual connections
02:04:25 Fitness payoff function

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