Do We See Reality As It Is? | Donald Hoffman

Is reality how it appears? Or nothing like it seems? Professor of Cognitive Science, Donald Hoffman puts forward the radical suggestion that our perceptions fail to map onto reality. Sign up to the full free course https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses/in...

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Donald Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist and popular science author. He is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. Hoffman studies consciousness, visual perception and evolutionary psychology using mathematical models and psychophysical experiments. His latest book The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes explains how our perceptions have evolved to hide reality from us.

In this course, eminent cognitive and evolutionary psychologist Professor Donald Hoffman explains how our evolution has blinded us to reality, and explores the idea that what we see is simply a virtual interface that allows us to navigate, but never actually see, the world. Join for free https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses/in...

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