{"id":194256,"date":"2024-08-08T18:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/donald-hoffman-consciousness-mysteries-beyond-spacetime-and-waking-up-from-the-dream-of-life"},"modified":"2024-08-08T18:26:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T23:26:02","slug":"donald-hoffman-consciousness-mysteries-beyond-spacetime-and-waking-up-from-the-dream-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/donald-hoffman-consciousness-mysteries-beyond-spacetime-and-waking-up-from-the-dream-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Donald Hoffman \u2014 Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yqOVu263OSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Professor Donald Hoffman is a cognitive neuroscientist and the author of more than 90 scientific papers and three books, including Visual Intelligence and The Case Against Reality.<\/p>\n<p>He is best known for his theory of consciousness, which combines evolutionary theory with mathematics to make a compelling case that the reality we see every day is an illusion created by our minds.<\/p>\n<p>In this conversation, we explore:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The groundbreaking scientific research being conducted by physicists into the \u201cstructures\u201d beyond spacetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald\u2019s theory of conscious agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The implications his theory of consciousness has for our understanding of the purpose of life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/donald-hoffman-consciousness-mysteries-beyond-spacetime-and-waking-up-from-the-dream-of-life\">Continue reading \u201cDonald Hoffman \u2014 Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Donald Hoffman is a cognitive neuroscientist and the author of more than 90 scientific papers and three books, including Visual Intelligence and The Case Against Reality. He is best known for his theory of consciousness, which combines evolutionary theory with mathematics to make a compelling case that the reality we see every day is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}