This is second episode with Donald Hoffman.  Donald is a Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University  of California, Irvine. He is an author of three books, including The  Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. Here we talk about what is mathematics?, Interface theory of perception,  fundamental nature of consciousness, origin of life, spiritual  experiences and meaning of death. 

Link for the first episode: https://youtu.be/pPJZm_-OKQ8).   

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Website: http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001HPIWAW   

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Timestamps: 

00:00:00 Introduction  

00:00:51 Interface theory of perception  

00:09:12 Reductionist approach in science 

00:13:52 What is mathematics? 

00:22:12 Emergence of mathematics  

00:25:28 Conscious agents and complexity 

00:32:52 Modern science on consciousness  

00:39:07 Experiments to study structures beyond space-time  

00:57:19 Complexity from conscious agents 

01:03:03 Is there an objective reality? 

01:09:19 Limited semantics to explain reality beyond space-time  

01:15:34 Intelligence and consciousness  

01:17:39 Perception of a self   

01:24:30 Is consciousness a gradient or discrete?  

01:27:14 Understanding universal consciousness  

01:38:38 Meditation, psychedelics and spiritual experiences  

01:40:40 Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism  

01:43:37 Fundamental consciousness is scientific or philosophical problem  

01:47:26 Can we go beyond our interface to see reality?  

01:49:44 Importance of silence in life  

01:55:16 Worldview of consciousness as fundamental  

02:03:50 Thank you!   

Other conversations and talks: 

1) Do we see reality as it is? @TED   

2) Donald Hoffman on Ultimate Reality  @Closer To Truth   

3) The Case Against Reality  @Skeptic   

4) The Death of SpaceTime & Birth of Conscious Agents  @Science and  Nonduality   

5) Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, and Gödel  [Theolocution]  @Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal   

6) The Case Against Reality  @The Institute of Art and Ideas    7) Lex Fridman  @Lex Fridman   (https://youtu.be/reYdQYZ9Rj4)  

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