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b"One of our favorite interviews ever (originally posted in 2019): We have NO CLUE how consciousness emerges from 3 pounds of wet goo. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman takes us deep into his research that makes a bold claim: we\\u2019ve been attacking the problem BACKWARDS.\\nThe implications of his theories just may change everything you think you know about reality and our place in it. Take the Red Pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes\\u2026\\nHere's the original video and transcript of our interview.\\nWe dive into the\\xa0Interface Theory of Perception\\xa0(how evolution hides the truth about reality in favor of a dumbed down user interface that only shows us \\u201cfitness\\u201d payoffs that help us survive), the \\u201cHard Problem of Consciousness\\u201d and how we simply have no idea how consciousness could emerge from physical matter, the theory of\\xa0Conscious Realism\\xa0(how reality is really a mathematically-definable social network of conscious \\u201cagents\\u201d and our perceptions are simply the interface by which we exchange experience with other conscious agents), the math behind conscious agent theory, implications for artificial intelligence (AI), what happens when we die, the limitation of resources in the universe, synesthesia, psychedelics, spirituality, medicine, and much much more.\\n1:22 Are we machines? Don\\u2019s motives for studying reality & his background in artificial intelligence & mathematics\\n6:38 Evolutionary game theory and how organisms are tuned to see fitness payoffs, not objective reality\\n11:46 The \\u201cGrand Theft Auto\\u201d analogy of perception as interface/symbolic representation\\n14:41 Differentiating solipsism & why we don\\u2019t just see SOME objective reality, we see NONE of it (YOU are the author of space and time)\\n21:06 The hard problem of consciousness and WHY it\\u2019s hard from a physicalist perspective\\n28:38 Conscious agent theory: consciousness is fundamental (rather than emerging from matter)\\n39:36 Challenging perceptual psychology; Piaget and object permanence\\n7:06 Amplituhedron and projecting quantum mechanics and relativity from conscious agent theory\\n50:42 Impact this theory can have on modern medicine and our limited understanding of mental health disorders\\n01:01:44 Deeper down the rabbit hole, and what happens when we die?\\n01:08:40 Artificial intelligence as a way to open new interfaces into the conscious agent realm\\n01:27:58 Examining Evolutionary Psychology; its relation to consciousness and resource limitation, logic & reason as tools of social persuasion\\n01:40:30 Psychedelics and meditation as tools to hack our perceptual interface and experience other conscious agents\\n01:47:02 Synesthetes as a glimpse into interface theory, evolution, and more\\nProf. Donald Hoffman, apart from being a brilliant scientist, is a wonderful and warm human being in person. Check out our first\\xa0audio-only conversation from 2018 here, and my take on his theory of consciousness here.\\n\\nVideo show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form:\\xa0https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd\\nSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me:\\xa0paypal.me/zdoggmd\\nMore about Dr. Z:\\xa0zdoggmd.com/about-z\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"