Reality is an illusion with Donald Hoffman

This is second episode with Donald Hoffman.  Donald is a Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University  of California, Irvine. He is an author of three books, including The  Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. Here we talk about what is mathematics?, Interface theory of perception,  fundamental nature of consciousness, origin of life, spiritual  experiences and meaning of death.  Link for the first episode: https://youtu.be/pPJZm_-OKQ8).    Guest info:  Website: http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman  Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001HPIWAW    Episode links:   Website:  https://www.reasonwithscience.com/home/nature-of-reality-with-bernardo-kastrup/reality-is-an-illusion-with-donald-hoffman Youtube: https://youtu.be/5zHdq_ba2W8 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/06YcGkK0C6wcFdSzu3E9Za?si=TyTDzaOkSUOiVW4jfP-ViA Apple podcast:   Google podcast:   Follow Reason with Science:   Website: https://www.reasonwithscience.com/   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/reasonwithscience  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5qFLGsPWjL4GAGidmF2nKh   Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reason-with-science/id1641776894   Google podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9iMjMyNDZlOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw    Timestamps:  00:00:00 Introduction   00:00:51 Interface theory of perception   00:09:12 Reductionist approach in science  00:13:52 What is mathematics?  00:22:12 Emergence of mathematics   00:25:28 Conscious agents and complexity  00:32:52 Modern science on consciousness   00:39:07 Experiments to study structures beyond space-time   00:57:19 Complexity from conscious agents  01:03:03 Is there an objective reality?  01:09:19 Limited semantics to explain reality beyond space-time   01:15:34 Intelligence and consciousness   01:17:39 Perception of a self    01:24:30 Is consciousness a gradient or discrete?   01:27:14 Understanding universal consciousness   01:38:38 Meditation, psychedelics and spiritual experiences   01:40:40 Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism   01:43:37 Fundamental consciousness is scientific or philosophical problem   01:47:26 Can we go beyond our interface to see reality?   01:49:44 Importance of silence in life   01:55:16 Worldview of consciousness as fundamental   02:03:50 Thank you!    Other conversations and talks:  1) Do we see reality as it is? @TED    2) Donald Hoffman on Ultimate Reality  @Closer To Truth    3) The Case Against Reality  @Skeptic    4) The Death of SpaceTime & Birth of Conscious Agents  @Science and  Nonduality    5) Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, and Gödel  [Theolocution]  @Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal    6) The Case Against Reality  @The Institute of Art and Ideas    7) Lex Fridman  @Lex Fridman   (https://youtu.be/reYdQYZ9Rj4)   #reasonwithscience #consciousness #donaldhoffman