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Donald Hoffman PHD - USER INTERFACE THEORY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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Donald D. Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Irvine. He believes that objects are simply a convenient way of representing payoffs we would get if we act in certain ways. The vast majority of cognitive scientists believe that consciousness emerges from matter and that virtual reality theories of science fiction or woo-woo as it's often derided in science.

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