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Last year, Donald Hoffman, PhD, from the University of California, Irvine, received the IONS annual Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize for his groundbreaking work on conscious agents theory, in collaboration with Chetan Prakash and Benjamin Knepper. Hoffman proposes that “units of consciousness” are more fundamental than space-time itself.
In this exclusive webinar, IONS Scientist Arnaud Delorme, PhD, will interview Hoffman as he shares insights and discoveries from his latest computational research into these intriguing “conscious agents.”
Conscious Agents and the Subatomic World with Donald Hoffman
Friday, January 10
11:00am – 12:00pm PST
All registrants will receive a link to the recording. Please register even if you can’t attend live.
HOST
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a neuroscientist at IONS and has been studying human consciousness for the last 20 years. He is a CNRS Research Director in Toulouse, France, and a senior Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego. He is a long-time Zen meditator, and recipient of several research prizes. He is the author of some 160+ peer-reviewed publications, and is best known for his work on the neural correlate of mind wandering and for developing the EEG software that is now the most-used in EEG research worldwide. He is the author of Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn to Focus Your Thoughts.
PRESENTER
Donald Hoffman received his PhD from MIT, and joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine in 1983, where he is a Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences. He is an author of over 100 scientific papers and three books, including Visual Intelligence and The Case Against Reality. 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 Edge, New Scientist, LA Review of Books, and Scientific American and his work has been featured in Wired, Quanta, The Atlantic, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. He has a TED Talk titled “Do we see reality as it is?” and a podcast with Lex Fridman titled “Reality is an illusion.”
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