AccentExplorer #13: Donald Hoffman on the Case Against Reality, consciousness, visual perception, and A.I.

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Dr. Donald Hoffman is a cognitive psychologist and famous science author. He is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman studies consciousness, visual perception, and evolutionary psychology using mathematical models and psychophysical experiments. His research subjects include facial attractiveness, the recognition of shape, the perception of motion and color, the evolution of perception, and the mind–body problem. His latest book, The Case Against Reality, argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.

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TIMESTAMPS

01:40 Take on AI, AGI, and ChatGPT

11:40 Threats of AI

13:45 Human Vision and Face Perception

18:00 Looking for Eyes

26:55 The Case Against Reality – Evolution by Natural Selection

34:55 Why Hoffman is wrong

39:55 Spacetime is Doomed

48:00 Thousand dimensions

50:25 Men vs Women Seeing colors

55:00 Designed simplicity

01:00:35 Reality misleads us

01:06:05 Consciousness

01:12:05 Dreams