Donald Hoffman

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2,139 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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The School of Greatness · The Math Says You've Never Seen Reality | Donald Hoffman · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

Any arrogance is recognizing, that's a failure to recognize who you are.

So greatness, recognizing your own greatness is to realize that every other person is your equal.

That's beautiful.

Don, thanks so much for being here.

Great pleasure.

Thank you.

Powerful.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory · Is Reality Real? - New Science On How The Universe & Consciousness Aren't Real | Donald Hoffman PT 2 (Fan Fav) · 1 Jan 2026 podcast

Oh, I'm not confident at all.

Is it your leading theory?

It's just my leading theory.

Why is it your leading theory?

First, I would agree with you that we could just say that there are some kind of dynamical entities outside of space-time and be agnostic about the nature of those entities, just write down their dynamics and then show how it projects into space-time, and we could be good.

Absolutely.

The reason I'm going after consciousness...

is two things.

Very personal first.

I mean, we all have headaches and we have conscious experiences.

And so we want to understand what consciousness is, right?

And the standard view right now among my colleagues in the neurosciences is that consciousness is something that's created by brain activity or embodied brains.

Or perhaps, if we're lucky, AIs and so forth.

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