Why Our Senses Lie to Us | Dr. Donald Hoffman
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Donald Hoffman a Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
I got introduced to Donald through the legendary Deepak Chopra so I was very excited to speak with Donald…
Donald received a PhD from MIT and is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.
He received a Distinguished Scientific Award of the American Psychological Association for early career research, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences.
His writing has appeared in Scientific American, New Scientist, LA Review of Books, and Edge, and his work has been featured in Wired, Quanta, The Atlantic, Ars Technica, National Public Radio, Discover Magazine, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.
He has a TED Talk titled “Do we see reality as it is?” and that sets the tone for this conversation…
In Donald's words: “I’m deeply convinced that everything that I've been taught is probably largely wrong. Everything that I believed is probably largely wrong. One of the big, big things that I have to work on as a person is to be good with that, to be good with not knowing and to face the fundamental and profound ignorance that's part of the human condition.”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm deeply convinced that I don't know. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm deeply convinced that everything that I've been taught is probably largely wrong. |
| 0:12.0 | Everything that I've believed is probably largely wrong. |
| 0:16.0 | And one of the big, big things that I have to work on as a person is to be good with that. |
| 0:22.0 | To be good with not knowing and to face the fundamental |
| 0:27.6 | and profound ignorance that's part of the human condition. We don't like that. We want to think that we have the answers and we know all the way |
| 0:37.1 | down. And what science teaches us is that even our best scientific theories are almost surely deeply flawed and they're the best we've got so far. Okay, welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training, |
| 1:05.0 | I am a sport and performance psychologist. |
| 1:07.0 | Now the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn |
| 1:10.0 | from people who are flat out switched on who have dedicated their life efforts |
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