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Donald Hoffman

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Donald David Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist and popular science author. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

Across 1 conversation, Donald Hoffman ranges across perception, evolution, space-time. Donald Hoffman argues that evolution shapes perceptions for fitness, not truth, suggesting our sensory experiences are adaptive fictions. Hoffman claims that space-time is 'doomed' at scales smaller than 10^-33 centimeters and 10^-43 seconds, challenging its fundamental status.

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Hoffman suggests that perceptions are shaped by evolution to maximize fitness, not to reflect true properties of reality, challenging traditional cognitive science.

#293Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth

The Park-Taylor formula reduces quantum computations significantly, indicating potential oversimplification in current models and suggesting new theoretical frameworks.

#293Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth

Hoffman's conscious agent theory posits that consciousness is fundamental, with space-time emerging from networks of conscious agents, reversing traditional views.

#293Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth

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