
Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality
The TED Interview
The Correlation Between Brain Activity and Our Conscious Experiences
There are tight correlations between brain activity and our conscious experiences. But of course, relations are not a theory. We think that there's a deeper explanation that has to be given beyond the correlations. For example, in experiments about our conscious experience of having made a free choice, you can actually have neural activity that predicts what the person is going to say several seconds before the person is consciously aware.
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