Do we have minds of our own?
Do we have minds of our own?
- December 4, 2019
- Don Hoffman, cog sci, The New Yorker, Dec. 4, 2019
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The [UCI Professor] cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman believes that these experimental observations prove that consciousness is fundamental to reality. In his recent book “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes,” he argues that we must restart science on an entirely different footing, beginning with the brute fact that our minds exist, and determining, from there, what we can recover from evolutionary theory, quantum physics, and the rest.
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