“As a scientist, I propose a theory and then try to prove the theory wrong, to test its validity,” he says. But, says Hoffman, there are no formal theories that explain this.
“I’m interested in understanding human conscious experiences and their relationship to the activity of our bodies and brains as we interact within our environment – and that includes the technical challenge of building computer models that mimic it, which is why I’m working on creating a model that explains consciousness,” he says.Ĭurrent scientific approaches assume there to be a pattern of neural activity that makes us experience things like the taste of a nut or the appearance of the color red. And he thinks we’ve been looking at it all wrong. In his new book, The Case Against Reality, UCI cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman applies this concept to the whole of human consciousness – how we see, think, feel and interact with the world around us.
Case in point: The above image is stationary and flat…just try telling your brain that.
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