Tag: Donald Hoffman

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 31, 2023

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Christof Koch, Closer to Truth, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, David Chalmers, Donald Hoffman, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, Evolutionary Game Theory, hard problem of consciousness, numbers, physicalism, physicalists, quantum mechanics, rhubarb, Roger Penrose, Sam Harris, subjective experience, University of California}

Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Are Tolerated; But Why?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 31, 2023

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The strangest imaginable theory, quantum mechanics, has turned out to be the most experimentally reliable. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 4, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Big Bang, cognitive science, computer, computers, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, David Chalmers, Donald Hoffman, electronics, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Evolutionary Game Theory, mind-body problem, natural selection, physicalists, pixels, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, University of California, voltage}

Brain Scientist: Consciousness Didn’t Evolve; It Creates Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 4, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

10}

Donald Hoffman says that even the Big Bang must be understood in a universe where consciousness is fundamental. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, consciousness, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, On the Origin of Species, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe}

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 28, 2017

Categories
Cosmology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Daniel Dennett, Donald Hoffman, evidence, Francis Crick, Giulio Tonioni, Hedda Hassel Mørch, John Searle, Max Tegmark, mind, neuroscience, panpsychism, Patricia Churchland, post-modern, Roger Penrose, science, Sean Carroll, Steven Novella}

Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 28, 2017

Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind

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“It’s quite plausible” is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 7, 2017

Categories
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Frank, Barry Arrington, Darwinism, Donald Hoffman, George Ellis, Jason Rosenhouse, Joe Silk, Karl Popper, Massimo Pigliucci, Michael Keas, multiverse, Natalie Wolchover, Sabine Hossenfelder, unicorns, William of Ockham}

Question for Multiverse Theorists: To What Can Science Appeal if Not Evidence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2017

Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science

10}

They could just as well say that whatever created horses created unicorns, too. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
May 11, 2016

Categories
Epistemology
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, base reality, Donald Hoffman, modern science, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, objectivity, perception, reasoning, scientific advance, self-reference, survival of the fittest, truth}

Evolution May Obscure Reality, Says a Cognitive Scientist and Evolutionist

_{Sarah Chaffee
May 11, 2016

Epistemology, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Purely naturalistic neo-Darwinism is self-defeating in its illogic. The consequences of this truth are far-reaching. Read More ›