Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness: A Conversation with Deepak Chopra and Don Hoffman

"Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness: A Conversation with Deepak Chopra and Don Hoffman" hosted by The University of California, Irvine School of Social Sciences Dean’s Leadership Society.

"Awake TV is excited to host a new Series "Conversations at the Intersection of Cutting Edge Science & Spirituality" with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Professor Don Hoffman, and Awake TV host Jennifer Hill.
Join Deepak in Episode 2: "Exploring Perceptual Experience and Fundamental Reality".

Jennifer K. Hill, Awake TV host of "Conversations for Consciousness" and co-founder of MetaBizics, interviews Deepak Chopra and Donald Hoffman about their respective new books: Metahuman and A Case Against Reality. During this discussion, Chopra and Hoffman delve into and reveal their perspectives on what consciousness is, and how it impacts our ability to see the truth of our realities. Chopra and Hoffman explore the intersection of science and spirituality, and what that means for the future of human beings and artificial intelligence.

About Deepak Chopra:

About Professor Don Hoffman:
Donald Hoffman received a PhD from MIT, and is a Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. He received a Distinguished Scientific Award of the American Psychological Association for early career research, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences. His writing has appeared in Scientific American, New Scientist, LA Review of Books, and Edge, and his work has been featured in Wired, Quanta, The Atlantic, Ars Technica, National Public Radio, Discover Magazine, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. He has a TED Talk titled “Do we see reality as it is?”

His book "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes" is shortlisted in Physics World Book of the Year 2019.

About Jennifer K. Hill:

[fluxdegreef]

So much didn't make sense in the world until I discovered Donald Hoffman a few months ago. Now most of the questions I've been struggling with make so much more sense. Thank you, Donald.

[JimenaGarcia]

Rupert Sheldrake has done many experiments human-aimals about comunication without words, telepathic comunication, that is what i do, im a interspecies comunicator, and its something you train to remember.
Wonderful talk!! Enjoyed so much!

[ginalibrizzi]

Wow. What an amazing team and discussion. I feel so much better after watching this.

[EcoTHEgrey]

Wonderful ! Thank you Universe for people like Don Hoffman! A great mind ...

[laika]

2 Gurus of out time. God bless them both.
🙏🙏🙏

[delq]

Absolutely great and enlightening ! Thank you Deepak and Hoffman

[Pittsburghestatesale]

A mathematical model for god, thank you Mr Hoffman, now we are getting somewhere.

[yuriysarkisov]

Wow. Thanks for uploading this. Great way to wake you up in the morning.

[joebrennan.]

Brilliant. ...Thank you so much for uploading this Deepak. 👍

[Studog]

Loved this, thank you so much for posting 🙏

[stevessoony]

“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
Rumi
Beautiful 🧎🏿‍♂️

[Breathingbliss]

Amazing 🙏 my son is autistic this confirms alot 🤯 💙

[hydrorix]

Wasn't Pauli Einstein was talking to about an objective moon, it was Abraham Pais, another walking partner/colleague at Princeton.

[asomaskanda]

A commonsense question about AI is when AI in a machine breaks down, it has to be repaired by humans as, in the first place,
it's the humas that created it. It's not self created.

[rpullman]

What is "seeing reality as it is"? I am intrigued by this discussion but not sure what Hoffman meant by that.

[unclebirdman]

Deepak's reasoning... everything we experience is in consciousness (ok fine)... therefore everything is actually in consciousness (hmmm not necessarily)

[noureddinenam]

go on human being dive into unknown without ourselves....

[kathri]

Actually expecting answers from science is futile. Whatever the hypothesis is and however it is cognised as the measurement and thoughts / ideas generated can never be real as the observer changes the experience and phenomenon.The sensual realm including the mind has an inherent delay and a bias.it can never be ' true'

[thephilosophermma]

I don’t know whether this was solving the problem or creating more problems

[SpudderR]

Enjoyable and instructional from both primary speakers....Thank-you. But When striving to enquire about the ineffable a distinction is required between “Infinite And Unlimited” Otherwise it is striving to use a computer input with only 0 Infinite and ignoring 1 Unlimited!? God is the recognition of 1 while utilising 0 as the Roundabout!? At the same time a description of God or the meaning, is not required, and religion and science have their correct places 0 and 1 Or 1 and 0 applying your truth Perception are You More scientist or being more open.