Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.In his research to uncover the underlying secrets of human perception, Donald Hoffman has discovered important clues pointing to the subjective nature of reality.Rather than as a set of absolute physical principles, reality is best understood as a set of phenomena our brain constructs to guide our behavior. To put it simply: we actively create everything we see, and there is no aspect of reality that does not depend on consciousness.Hoffman is a faculty member at UC Irvine and a recipient of the Troland Award of the US National Academy of Sciences.@donalddhoffmanhttp://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/His Book: The Case Against Reality [ https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/dp/0393254690 ]His TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshareSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeatingAnd please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝🎥 🎥 Watch my most popular videos🎥 🎥Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMwStephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating🔥 Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php👪Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2🎙️Listen on all other platforms: https://wavve.link/intoA production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices