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Dr. Donald Hoffman invites us to explore the idea that our physical senses of touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell are not actually providing us with absolute truth regarding what is really there. What if our senses are hiding the true reality behind an interface--like icons on a computer desktop? Perhaps the cosmos consists of a massive interconnected network whose components have conscious agency to experience, decide, and act. If so, consciousness does not arise from matter--instead, matter and spacetime arise from consciousness, as a perceptual interface. Dr. Hoffman invites us to "take off the headset" we didn't know we've been wearing all along.
Dr. Hoffman is professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine, and the author of several books including, "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes," "Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception," and "Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See." Donald Hoffman's website is: http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/
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Dr. Donald Hoffman invites us to explore the idea that our physical senses of touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell are not actually providing us with absolute truth regarding what is really there. What if our senses are hiding the true reality behind an interface--like icons on a computer desktop? Perhaps the cosmos consists of a massive interconnected network whose components have conscious agency to experience, decide, and act. If so, consciousness does not arise from matter--instead, matter and spacetime arise from consciousness, as a perceptual interface. Dr. Hoffman invites us to "take off the headset" we didn't know we've been wearing all along.
Dr. Hoffman is professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine, and the author of several books including, "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes," "Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception," and "Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See." Donald Hoffman's website is: http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/
#perception #reality #consciousness #simulation #mandelaeffect #imec
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Jerry "Dark Wolf" Hicks
youtube.com/channel/UCH6a3_fJWKNNotbCKuTbZdg
Shane Unbiased and On The Fence
youtube.com/channel/UC_MWq0Cg2BQBKenbjQV7Slw
Chris Anatra - The Quantum Businessman
youtube.com/c/QuantumBusinessman/videos
Cynthia Sue Larson
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