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
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