I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Today's guest is the brilliant Dr. Donald Hoffman.

Donald is a full professor of cognitive science at the University of California, the author of the

case against reality and visual intelligence and the co-author of observer mechanics.

Within his body of work, Donald studies how our visual perception

and perception in general generates every aspect of our so-called

reality. Through his research he has discovered important clues pointing to the subjective nature of what we believe is the

reality of the world around us.

Reality in his view is best understood as a set of phenomena that our brain constructs to guide our behaviors.

In other words, we actively create everything

that we see.

Donald has received the Distinguished Scientific Award

of the American Psychological Association for his early career research into visual perception,

the Rustum Roy Award of the Chupra Foundation and the Trowland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Although of course if you ask him I guess he would say that none of this is actually reality.

Join us as we try to discover what is actually real and what is created by evolution, by our brains, and by our

limited perception of the world around us.

Your breakthrough eye-opening book

that you started the conversation with

was the idea of the case against reality.

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