The Emerging Science: “We Are ONE Consciousness” - Life, Death & The Simulation | Donald Hoffman

Donald Hoffman is back on Know Thyself today to explore the constraints of time and space, and how they shape our understanding of the world around us. He discusses the "headset analogy" - the idea that our senses act as a kind of cognitive filter, preventing us from directly perceiving the true nature of reality.
Donald delves into the paradoxes found in various mathematical theorems, and his newest research on "conscious agents" and how it relates to the Gaia hypothesis. The significance of mystical experiences and their potential to reveal truths about the nature of reality is also covered.
Hoffman also opens up about his thoughts on reincarnation, the relationship between science and spirituality, and the possibility of artificial intelligence becoming truly conscious.

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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:31 Why We Don't See the Truth of Reality
8:36 Limitations of Time & Space
13:28 The Headset Analogy: Illusion of Reality
17:08 Is This a Simulation?
23:07 Panpsychism vs Idealism
30:14 The Role of Evolution on Consciousness
37:43 Amplituhedron & Challenging the Notion of Space/Time
46:52 Truth About Scientific Theories & Making Assumptions
53:34 The Limits of Language
1:00:20 Seeing the World with an Open Mind
1:15:03 What Exists Beyond our Understanding
1:20:44 Paradoxes Found in Theorems
1:24:00 Donald's New Research on Conscious Agents
1:28:06 Gaia Hypothesis vs Conscious Agents
1:38:34 Enlightened Beings & Embodying this Wisdom
1:44:02 Donald's Meditation Practice
1:47:39 Why We Should Ask These Questions
1:50:24 What Mystical Experiences Reveal
1:55:28 Reality of Reincarnation
1:58:50 This Science Will Change the World
2:02:27 What's Next for the Research
2:04:50 God & Understanding Something Greater
2:12:33 Will AI Become Conscious?
2:17:06 Conclusion

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Donald David 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, Irvine, 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 research subjects include facial attractiveness, the recognition of shape, the perception of motion and color, the evolution of perception, and the mind–body problem.
He has co-authored two technical books; Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception (1989) offers a theory of consciousness and its relationship to physics; Automotive Lighting and Human Vision (2005) applies vision science to vehicle lighting. His book Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See (1998) presents the modern science of visual perception to a broad audience. His 2015 TED Talk, "Do we see reality as it is?" argues that our perceptions have evolved to hide reality from us.

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André Duqum

[patriaciasmith]

Spirituality is creating your own reality by learning from your stepping stones and raising your vibration to be your best self and achieve your mission goals in this lifetime.

[integralintelligence]

Assuming Donald is an Atheist (like Dawkins). Talking about Miracles, it may be that a synonym for Miracle = God. So assume that a Miracle is the same as God.

[blsil]

I had a near-death experience a few years ago when I suffered a pulmonary embolism while hiking. My experience rattled me because when I died I was an atheist and had no prior preparation to experience anything other than nothingness upon death. I did not have any beliefs and I was not raised in an environment that fostered such thinking.
I scoured everything for a few years trying to find a philosophy or religion that matched my after life experience and new beliefs.
All the while trying to live a normal life and not seem too unhinged to my friends and family. Lol. Trust me, three years ago I was not thinking or talking about existence, or quantum physics, or epigenetics, or fracturing...And like everyone else I was just trying to survive.
I got a degree in psychology and a good psychotherapist right away because I didn't know what else to do. I didn't understand I was seeking spirituality. Suddenly I was an outsider among a crew who all still live by the ego and doesn't believe in a soul.
I am actually seeking a mix of spirituality, physics, and alchemy and game theory. Your channel and another channel called Your Youinverse make me feel less alone in my belief systems. Nobody in my everyday life likes discussing topics of such depth and that's all I want to do now!
Understanding your mind, especially the subconscious mind, is a top priority. My experience of another place separate from this life taught me that I am in a projected reality separate from my suspended form that is emerging and learning, shaping its conscious form. Becoming self aware and my thoughts and feelings are an algorithm steering the ship so to speak. I know I am "suspended" in another dimension. I know it's a shared platform. I know there is a "code". I know the structure of our foundation is made of an ethereal silver light and I am certain that a being of light particles spoke to me through crushing vibrations and strings of mental imagery that I am still trying to decipher.
Lol, it's alot.
It's tough to fit in after something like this happens and I just wanted to say how grateful I am for this kind of content. After my nde it is helping to re-orient all the chaos surrounding my massive shift in thought. So, thank you. 🤗

[integralintelligence]

00:46:00 "The Theory of Everything" does exist as energetic (sound) vibrations. That as a fact. Try to reason (= action = 1) the Leonhard Euler's GOD 4-mu-Λa where e^i.π represents all (= π) subjectivity one can i-mag-ine; the i. The trigger to most or all consciousness 'appears' by the volition through the Throat Chakra by speaking out everything. When 'every-thing-king' is been spoken out, there is nothing = dZéRho = 0 to be said anymore; the integral function: 1 + e^i.π has become dZéRho, neutral as a serum and in complete balance and Har-Monism; the I AM state or: I εμ εμ - Nikola Tesla > All = Energy.

Maybe Donald should talk to some Psychosophers to achieve true innovation for himself. Any innovation within oneself implies a (new) part of one's fractal spectre of consciousness; another 'layer' or Di-Mentionality within the 'energy stack': e^i.π. He suggested it himself to talk with others about the 'Theory of Everything'. You are welcome.

[integralintelligence]

Talent - Latent = Valent (moi 2015) Basic Math's for Psychosophers

[integralintelligence]

At 2:04:00 Brilliant PhD candidates, sure all educated within the thinking system of itself BORING ? no innovation THUS. Working within the same disciplines won't lead to Innovation. Mary from 'Mary's Room' was brilliant as well (some claimed); lacking the knowledge of a great part of the spectre of color.

[integralintelligence]

Strange remark (0:22:00 >) that giving millions of dollars to some group of scientists will give a better answer. So money is the guarantee for one's actualized potential = intelligence = consciousness? And if such scientist is NOT equipped (energetic configuration)? Such a silly assumption and My wisdom lacks all priceness & payablity; so it can't be paid for since it lacks any financial value. That is True Wisdom. Learn from the real Grandmasters.

[integralintelligence]

Creating a device or an apparatus that 'is measuring' (measurement) by someone with a Me-Assure-Mentality :: someone who has a low self esteem/self confidence (wanting to be SURE), is only possible when that someone is beyond the comprehension level of consciousness itself. Otherwise all devices and apparatuses assure him/her of some derivation with higher densities within the lower layers of this so called reality or realism. When 'you' comprehend consciousness the necessity for an apparatus lacks from that moment on; why should you need one while you can tell it yourself in the immediate relationship with the source?

We offer sessions to learn more about these ways of thinking dear Donald. You are very welcome to meet us at the Private University of Life situated in the foreign areas of the world.

[integralintelligence]

Realism and Reality :: facts (events) are nothing by collectively objective agreements (if the agreementality for volition to it is present) based on each individuality's subjective perception and interpretation within the same 'situation'/event/phenomenon. IT IS THAT SIMPLE !

[integralintelligence]

The thing about Re-Al-ism as a Re-Al-m is to consider the thing-king as a thought as the result - David Bohm or one's thought as part of the One consciousness being the trigger of that thing-king.

"Are thoughts proprioceptive?" David Bohm

[integralintelligence]

01:07:42 - "... views its other Avatars as enemies in some cases" - Is this Cognitive Dissonance or not, Donald? If we are one consciousness then any avatar being consciousness is part of the one consciousness. Wishing to not know the enemy implies the lack of comprehending this 'enemy'so lacking a part of consciousness so this ONE cosnciousness is no longer (an) Integer (w-holeness).

[integralintelligence]

(RAPPEL) Dear Donald Hoffman, can you follow me?

[Ponderingaboutlife]

I love how Donald H and the team of scientists he works with brought the science and spiritual closer. Now you see more and more PHDs, scientists, researchers...talk about spiritual concepts. Donald has been instrumental for this inevitable marriage(merger of the spiritual and science) as they are practically the same. Hopefully, we see some amazing technologies come out of his work. Most importantly, the loving, kind, collaborative mindset of this man to serve as an example to the collective consciousness of all of us human beings!

[integralintelligence]

Λ :: Greek capital Labda representing the sun Rise & Set like Λeo at its most prominent mo(ve)ment....

[Gullsz]

Evolution doesn’t mean we evolve towards objective truth. It evolves us towards survival, which might be objective truth or not

[integralintelligence]

A DE-finition as a word is a denial of the finition as a fact. So a definition fails the limit to characterize a phenomenon (fact/event) in a shorter way.

[srinivaskatta]

I am Hindu. This talk resonates many teachkngs of my religion. The analogies were good. Enjoyed the podcast. Thank you Andre and Donald 🙏💖

[cathybinder]

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH MY BROTHER ANDRÉ! I ADORE MR HOFFMANN! HE IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE
MY FEELING IS THAT THOUGH OUR MIND INTELLIGENCE IS OBVIOUSLY LIMITED TO WITHIN OUR SPACE/TIME
REALITY WHICH YOU WONDERFUL BEINGS ARE NOW DISCUSSING AND WITH WHICH I CAN FEEL IN AGREEMENT WITH……. MY FEELING IS THAT THROUGH OUR DIVINITY WE DO HAVE ACCESS TO AND UTILIZE OUR HEART INTELLIGENCE WITHIN SPACE TIME AND CAN ACCESS THE “OUTSIDE” OF OUR PERIMETERS HERE ONCE WE ARE ABLE TO SEAT OUR CONSCIENCENESS WITHIN OUR HEARTS . WE CAN STILL ACCESS AND HAVE FULL INTERACTION CAPABILITIES MY FEELING IS, WITH WHAT IS OUTSIDE OF OUR CREATED PERIMETERS HERE THROUGH USING OUR HEART CONSCIOUSNESS.
Was that too overstated haha?
LOVE TO ALL OF MY PRECIOUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO THE DEPTHS AND THE HEIGHTS THAT ONLY OUR HEARTS AND OUR SOULS CAN REACH!💜
(Ps haha as Dr Hoffmann has said I began to RELAX once I realized this was going to take me a good long while lol
And THAT matters not
Because I exist in infinity.💜

[CoreyChambersLA]

Donald Hoffman is on to something big here. To accomplish something impossible, such as traveling the speed of light, we need to change the game. He presents a logical path to do so.

[integralintelligence]

All thoughts as consciousness fit in the palm of my 2 hands.

"Thoughts are not of this World." 2008. : DAVID-WYNN: MILLER.