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

                                                                            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. Subscribe to Accent Podcast on Youtube to see all episodes: https://www.youtube.com/theaccentpodcast The Case Against Reality: https://amzn.to/46pkLLS Be the first to support The Accent at: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast 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