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Donald Hoffman
Also known as: Donald D. Hoffman
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Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 10 facts
claimDonald Hoffman published the book 'The Case Against Reality: How evolution hid the truth from our eyes'.
referenceChris Fields, Donald Hoffman, Chetan Prakash, and Manish Singh authored the paper 'Conscious agent networks: Formal analysis and application to cognition'.
perspectiveDonald Hoffman argues that perceptual systems function as information channels subject to data compression and reconstruction, meaning perception is a construction rather than a reconstruction of the environment.
formulaDonald Hoffman's 'fitness beats truth theorem' serves as a mathematical proof that perceptions of reality bear little resemblance to the true nature of reality.
claimPhilosophers Whitehead, Shan Gao, Michael Hoffman, and cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman have put forward panpsychist interpretations of quantum mechanics.
claimDonald Hoffman proposed the theory of conscious realism, which posits that consensus reality and spacetime are illusory and function as a species-specific evolved user interface, while reality is composed of a network of conscious agents.
perspectiveDonald Hoffman argues that consensus reality lacks concrete existence and functions as an evolved user-interface.
referenceDonald Hoffman argues that evolution has hidden the truth of reality from human perception in his 2019 book, 'The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes'.
perspectiveDonald Hoffman argues that the true nature of reality consists of abstract 'conscious agents'.
perspectiveDonald Hoffman asserts that consciousness is an indisputable fact, even if reality itself is an illusion.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimCognitive psychologist Donald D. Hoffman uses a mathematical model based on conscious agents within a fundamentally conscious universe to support conscious realism as a description of nature.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers characterizes the form of idealism proposed by Donald D. Hoffman as one of the handful of promising approaches to the mind–body problem.