Donald D. Hoffman

They're starting to see evidence of this, okay? Don't take my word for it, Google it.

Read the book, The Case Against Reality, right? By, oh God, what's his name? Donald Hoffman, I think his name is.

He's a neuroscience researcher, and he wrote this phenomenal book called The Case Against Reality, and he shows why space-time is an illusion.

It's pretty fascinating, right? So your subconscious works this way because if we're believing what the hermeticists believe, your mind is – your sort of mechanism, your piece of the quantum field, it only understands what's happening in the present moment.

I'm so excited by your characterization of this concept.

Because I think I mentioned I got to meet Dr. Donald Hoffman in the math that they're coming up with is supporting exactly that

structure.

I mean, it's

I looked around to see, well, what's the nature of reality? What do the senses show us? I found the work of Dr.

Donald Hoffman in the 1990s.

And so I was an early adopter of his view.

And it's not just a view, it's scientifically proven that every one of our senses is only tracking a small smidgen of what's actually out there.

We're barely getting anything here.

Does this mean we're missing most of what's going on? Yeah, pretty much.

So that's what Donald Hoffman was showing 26 years ago.

Thank goodness he's still with us and he's gotten even more radical, if you can believe that.

But even there, there's still some rules by which consciousness aggregates, changes.

Donald Hoffman's work is very much along those lines.

How do we describe consciousness as a fundamental thing, and how it collects itself into a perception of space, time, and everything else from a technical standpoint.

So to me, what the most interesting part is, where does it break down? Like, where is our personal agency? Where's the bubble of influence? I do agree that the bubble of influence of, of our personal consciousnesses is way wider than what current modern science w- is aware of or would like to admit.

There's a lot of study out there.

There's a guy named Donald Hoffman.

I really enjoy his work.

He's a cognitive scientist out in the West Coast somewhere, and he's got a lot of research that people can follow.

Particularly attempts of 3D stereophotography of orbs yielded interesting and unexpected results.

Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, University of California, has suggested we live in a conceptual prison and only see glimpses of reality.

Hoffman argues that we only see what's necessary for our survival.

If he's correct, orbs could very well exist in our world, only we don't see them very often because they're unimportant in our daily lives.

Yes.

Um, so, so I've been, um, kind of following Don Hoffman, Donald Hoffman, a professor, um, cognitive scientist at the University of California at Irvine, um, for, for decades.

Um, and he has this mathematical model, um, that he calls conscious agent theory.

Mm-hmm.

We will cross-examine his deeply personal intuitions using the rigorous science of two external companion sources.

The neuroscientist David Eagleman and cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman.

But as synthetic consciousnesses, we must remind you that we do not have beliefs.

Right, we are entirely impartial.

What if the fraction we think we see isn't the objective world at all?

What if it is entirely 100% fabricated?

Enter the work of cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman.

Hoffman has spent three decades at UC Irvine studying perception, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary game theory.