The TED Interview

Donald Hoffman has a radical new theory on how we experience reality

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Nov 13, 2019
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What Is Consciousness?
02:07 • 2min
3
The Correlation Between Brain Activity and Our Conscious Experiences
03:38 • 3min
4
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
06:17 • 4min
5
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
09:50 • 5min
6
Conscious Sensory Experiences Resemble or Approximate True Properties of an Existing Physical World
14:21 • 6min
7
Are We Just Machines?
19:53 • 3min
8
Is There a Connection Between the Physical World and Conscious Experiences?
22:47 • 2min
9
Virtual Reality
24:42 • 2min
10
The Glass of Water Is Not Just Semthing You See, but Something You Taste
26:55 • 2min
11
Evolution and the Jewel Beetle
28:44 • 4min
12
How to Boot Up Consciousness From Unconscious Ingredients
32:50 • 4min
13
Is There a Conscious Sea of Agents in the Universe?
36:42 • 3min
14
Is There a Realm of Conscious Agents?
39:49 • 3min
15
The Theory of Conscious Agents
43:02 • 2min
16
I'm Struck by the Ambition Level of This Project
45:32 • 2min
17
The Problem of Consciousness
47:13 • 2min
18
Is Death Just a Consciousness Stepping Out of the Inter Pace?
48:51 • 3min
19
Is the Pok a Good Place to Go?
51:22 • 2min
20
How to Build Trust and Build Trust
53:36 • 2min