Donald Hoffman
Cognitive scientist; argues evolution hid reality from us and that consciousness is fundamental
17 videos analysed · 67 quotes checked word for word · updated 2026-10-18
Key facts
- Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1955; PhD from MIT (1983) under David Marr and Whitman Richards; professor emeritus at UC Irvine. Wikipédia · Donald D. Hoffman (Wikipedia)
- Books: Observer Mechanics (1989), Visual Intelligence (1998), The Case Against Reality (2019). Wikipédia · Donald D. Hoffman (Wikipedia)
- His father was a fundamentalist preacher who believed the Earth is about 4,000 years old; Hoffman says he got one story on Sunday and the science story on Monday. Video 2026 · The Basement: Donald Hoffman,…
- He meditates and says that when he wants new creative ideas he puts the mathematics aside and sits in silence. Video 2025 · The Greatest Discovery About…
Positions
click a row to see the evidenceHe does not describe God as a person. He says the closest way to think of God is 'being', not a being: the ground of consciousness. He sees the world's religions as perspectives on one deeper consciousness, and words like God as pointers. He was raised in a fundamentalist Christian home.
- The closest way to think of God is being itself, not a being: the ground of consciousness. People are avatars of one infinite consciousness looking at itself. Video 2022 · Donald Hoffman: Reality is an…2
- Words like God or collective consciousness are pointers to something that transcends them. Christian, Buddhist and Hindu traditions each catch a piece of the puzzle. Video 2026 · The Basement: Donald Hoffman,…2
Talk of God, being itself or a collective consciousness has no testable meaning.
He says words like God or collective consciousness are pointers to something that transcends them.
He argues that evolution shaped our senses to show fitness payoffs, not the truth. He says that according to evolution by natural selection the probability is zero that any sensory system was shaped to see any truth about objective reality, and calls space, time and objects 'an adaptive fiction'.
He is sceptical about perception and cautious about his own theory: he says 'I'll be the first to say I'm probably wrong' and that there is 'no such thing as a theory of everything'. For him theories are pointers, and science's gift is to tell exactly where each one stops.
He holds that consciousness is fundamental and the physical world comes from it. He calls this 'conscious realism' and says that in strict terms it is idealism, close to Bernardo Kastrup's. He says 'you can't start with unconscious ingredients and boot up consciousness', and that no theory of consciousness explains even one specific experience, such as the taste of chocolate.
1986 Before the shock of the 1980s he was a physicalist: he says he went into the field thinking that the neural basis of consciousness would be found, an approach he now thinks will not work. Video 2024 · Donald Hoffman, Consciousness,…
- Physicalist theories have failed to explain any specific conscious experience, and he says this failure is what pushes him to put consciousness first. Video 2020 · Is there an Infinite Mind?…23
- You cannot start from unconscious ingredients and boot up consciousness: no physical system, whether neurons, microtubules or AI, can give you a theory of consciousness. Video 2019 · The Case Against Reality | Prof.…2
- So he reverses the order: consciousness creates the brain, not the other way round. He builds a mathematical theory of networks of conscious agents, where a brain is a symbol those agents create. Video 2022 · Donald Hoffman: Reality is an…2
- Against the illusionist view that there are only illusions of experience, he asks for a scientific account of that illusion. Video 2026 · The Basement: Donald Hoffman,…2
Consciousness is an illusion produced by the brain; there are no inner experiences beyond what the brain's reports make us think.
He answers the illusionist view by asking for a scientific account of that illusion.
Putting consciousness first is only a hope: it has so far produced no technology and no precise mathematics.
He grants that the traditions that put consciousness first have produced no technology, whereas all of it came from physicalist science. He says he does not appeal to authority, wants precise mathematics and experiments, and that his ideas are probably wrong but better than the physicalist ones.
Defends : The hard problem of consciousness and zombies, The mill: perception is not a machineCriticizes : There are no qualia: Dennett's intuition pumps
No sourced position yet on: Freedom, Status of morality, Faith and reason, Meaning of life, Human nature.
On the big questions
Does God exist?Pantheism
Closest camp: God is not a being but being itself, the ground of consciousness, and individuals are avatars of one infinite consciousness looking at itself.
- The closest way to think of God is being itself, not a being: the ground of consciousness. People are avatars of one infinite consciousness looking at itself. Video 2022 · Donald Hoffman: Reality is an…2
- Words like God or collective consciousness are pointers to something that transcends them. Christian, Buddhist and Hindu traditions each catch a piece of the puzzle. Video 2026 · The Basement: Donald Hoffman,…2
Talk of God, being itself or a collective consciousness has no testable meaning.
He says words like God or collective consciousness are pointers to something that transcends them.
Is the mind the brain?The mind is not matter
Closest camp: the mind is not matter. In his view matter and spacetime come from consciousness, which he calls fundamental. He says the real task is the reverse of the hard problem: show how networks of conscious agents create what we call brains.
- Physicalist theories have failed to explain any specific conscious experience, and he says this failure is what pushes him to put consciousness first. Video 2020 · Is there an Infinite Mind?…23
- You cannot start from unconscious ingredients and boot up consciousness: no physical system, whether neurons, microtubules or AI, can give you a theory of consciousness. Video 2019 · The Case Against Reality | Prof.…2
- So he reverses the order: consciousness creates the brain, not the other way round. He builds a mathematical theory of networks of conscious agents, where a brain is a symbol those agents create. Video 2022 · Donald Hoffman: Reality is an…2
- Against the illusionist view that there are only illusions of experience, he asks for a scientific account of that illusion. Video 2026 · The Basement: Donald Hoffman,…2
Consciousness is an illusion produced by the brain; there are no inner experiences beyond what the brain's reports make us think.
He answers the illusionist view by asking for a scientific account of that illusion.
Putting consciousness first is only a hope: it has so far produced no technology and no precise mathematics.
He grants that the traditions that put consciousness first have produced no technology, whereas all of it came from physicalist science. He says he does not appeal to authority, wants precise mathematics and experiments, and that his ideas are probably wrong but better than the physicalist ones.
Defends : The hard problem of consciousness and zombies, The mill: perception is not a machineCriticizes : There are no qualia: Dennett's intuition pumps
The question on the site: all the argumentsShould we fear death?The soul survives
He says that in his framework it is possible that some aspect of his consciousness survives death, perhaps bare awareness without content, unlike in physicalism. He compares death to taking off a headset, and says near-death reports deserve a careful look.
- Physicalism has a very clear implication for death: consciousness ends when the brain dissolves. If consciousness is fundamental, that implication disappears. Video 2022 · Does Consciousness Survive…2
- Death is in some sense taking off the headset: you leave the interface and get a different perspective. Video 2024 · Donald Hoffman - Consciousness,…2
- Near-death experiences may hold good data about leaving the interface, but he says to take them with a grain of salt. Video 2023 · We Live in a Simulation. The…
The soul is made of matter and scatters when the body dies, so nothing survives.
He says physicalism does imply that consciousness ends with the brain, but if consciousness is fundamental, some aspect of it may survive; death is like taking off the headset.
Near-death experiences are produced by a dying brain and prove nothing about survival.
He says they may hold good data about leaving the interface, but should be taken with a grain of salt.
Can a machine think?Understanding is missing
He says AIs could be a window into consciousness but will not create it: a computer program cannot make consciousness, though technology might one day open new portals into conscious agents that already exist.
- A complicated enough unconscious system does not create consciousness, AI included. AIs could be a window into consciousness but will not create it. Video 2019 · The Case Against Reality | Prof.…2
If a machine behaves like a thinking being, we have no better reason to deny it thought.
He says a complicated enough unconscious system does not create consciousness, AI included, though AIs could be a window into consciousness.
Man is a machine that winds its own springs: thought is only the work of a complex mechanism.
Why is there something rather than nothing?The first mystery
He says the existence of conscious experiences is the 'miracle' his theory assumes, like any theory. He thinks we will never fully solve how the formless gives birth to form.
- His theory does not try to explain the origin of conscious experiences: they are the miracle it assumes, as every theory assumes something. Video 2024 · The Emerging Science: “We Are…
- We will never fully solve how the formless gives birth to form, such as the taste of chocolate. Video 2022 · Donald Hoffman: Reality is an…
A theory that simply assumes conscious experience explains nothing: it only moves the mystery.
He says the existence of conscious experiences is the miracle his theory assumes, as every theory assumes some miracle.
Is the world real?It is all in the mind
Space, time and objects are an interface, a headset; reality is a network of conscious agents. He says neurons do not exist when they are not perceived, and that he is not a solipsist. Unlike simulation theorists such as Bostrom, he thinks the bottom level is not physical.
- Evolution did not shape us to see the truth but to survive. Space-time is a headset, an adaptive fiction, like an icon on a screen that hides the real file. Video 2023 · The Convergence of Science and…23
- Quantum theory shows that local realism is false, and neurons, like everything in space-time, do not exist when they are not perceived. He says we must bite the bullet: space and time are not fundamental. Video 2022 · Donald Hoffman: Reality is an…23
- He answers that this does not make science useless: even the pointers on instruments are not reality, yet science stays testable, and neuroscience still deserves funding. Video 2022 · Donald Hoffman: Reality is an…2
- Reality is conscious all the way down, and the interface hides most of it. The face you see is a symbol you create, a portal into someone's real consciousness. Video 2019 · The Case Against Reality | Prof.…2
If neurons do not exist when nobody perceives them, then neuroscience and the rest of science become meaningless.
He says this is compatible with funding neuroscience, and that even the pointers on instruments are not reality, yet science stays testable.
The success of science would be a miracle if our senses did not show the world at least partly as it is.
He says science stays testable even though instrument pointers are not objective reality.
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Here is one hand, and here is another: I know the external world exists, whatever a theory says.
Mixed : To be is to be perceived: there is no matterCriticizes : The simulation argument: three possibilities, one of which is true
The question on the site: all the argumentsCan science explain everything?True, but not everything
He loves science and wants more funding for neuroscience, but says science itself tells us there is no theory of everything. He sees that as good news: exploration never ends.
- Science itself tells us there is no theory of everything, so a deep mystery remains. He calls this good news, because exploration never ends. Video 2025 · The Greatest Discovery About…
- Even the pointers on instruments are not objective reality, yet science stays testable. Video 2022 · Donald Hoffman: Reality is an…
A theory is scientific only if it can be refuted: can a theory of conscious agents be tested?
He says science stays testable even though the pointers on instruments are not objective reality, and calls his own theory only version 1.0.
Science can in principle explain everything, so there is no deep mystery left.
He says science itself tells us there is no theory of everything, and calls that good news because exploration never ends.
Does time really exist?Time is in the mind
He calls space and time 'illusions of our projection', like an icon that is useful but not the file itself. He adds that space-time falls apart at the Planck scale, so it cannot be fundamental.
- Space and time are illusions of our projection: they belong to the interface, not to the final reality that opens up when we step outside it. Video 2025 · How Consciousness Shapes the…
Our relief when something unpleasant is over shows that the present really moves on: time is not just an illusion.
Mixed : Time is the form of our inner sense: real for experience, nothing in itself
The question on the site: all the argumentsIn their words
Reality is this vast social network of interacting conscious agents.
I don't think you can start with unconscious ingredients, and boot up consciousness.
Neurons do not exist when they're not perceived.
I'll be the first to say, I'm probably wrong.
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There is no such thing as a theory of everything.
How the ideas evolved
Click a step for details1987 Change of mindThe aha moment
Around 1987, working with the mathematicians Bruce Bennett and Chetan Prakash, he sees that his own mathematical model of perception implies that what we see is a user interface, not the truth. He says he had to sit down: the mathematics 'slapped me in the face'.
In their words« there actually was a an aha moment »He dates his aha moment to about 1987 while writing Observer Mechanics with Bruce Bennett and Chetan Prakash. watch
« It's just not possible to boot up a theory of consciousness from physical »He says no physical system, neurons, microtubules or AI, can boot up a theory of consciousness. watch
« neurons do not exist when they're not perceived »He says neurons do not exist when not perceived, and that this is compatible with funding neuroscience. watch
1989Observer Mechanics
He co-authors Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception, an early theory of consciousness and its relation to physics.
1998Visual Intelligence
He publishes Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See, for a general audience: we construct what we see.
2014Telling colleagues he does not see the truth
In a talk on entangling conscious agents he says he now believes his perceptions do not reflect reality, against the standard view of most perception scientists that evolution makes us see truly. He says he also meditates and that the two ways of working feed each other.
In their words« recently I've been telling my colleagues in cognitive Neuroscience that that I now believe that that I don't see the truth »In 2014 he says he now believes his perceptions do not reflect reality. watch
« I'm not just one conscious agent I'm a whole infinite Network »He describes himself as an infinite network of conscious agents, not a single one. watch
2016Fitness beats truth
In a Quanta Magazine interview he explains his argument with Chetan Prakash: a creature that sees reality as it is is never fitter than one tuned only to fitness. Perception works like a desktop interface, with useful icons that hide what is behind them.
2019The Case Against Reality
His book brings the interface theory and conscious realism to a wide audience. In November and December 2019 he explains it on the ZDoggMD podcast and on Sam Harris's Making Sense. On ZDoggMD he adds that his ideas are probably wrong in parts and must be held tentatively.
In their words« I don't think you can start with unconscious ingredients and boot up consciousness »He says you cannot start from unconscious ingredients and boot up consciousness. watch
« I'm probably wrong »He says the ideas he puts forward are probably wrong, but better than the physicalist ones. watch
« mathematics is like the bones within consciousness it's the structure of consciousness »He sees mathematics as the bones of consciousness, essential but not the whole of it. watch
2022Conscious realist, not idealist
On the Lex Fridman Podcast he says he left physicalism because unconscious ingredients cannot boot up consciousness. He prefers the name 'conscious realist' to 'idealist', stresses that his theory is only a version 1.0, and says there will never be a theory of everything.
In their words« Pointers are just pointers »He says even the instruments' pointers are not objective reality, yet science stays testable. watch
« the face that I see is just a symbol that I create »He says the face he sees is a symbol he creates, a portal into someone's real consciousness. watch
« there is no such thing as a theory of everything »He says there is no theory of everything and that his own conscious agent theory is only version 1.0. watch
2024Idealism, but not the Bostrom simulation
He says strictly speaking his view is philosophical idealism, and that he rejects both pillars of Bostrom-style simulation theory: that physics is fundamental and that programs can create consciousness.
In their words« I think that we just have to bite the bullet and say space and time aren't fundamental »He says we must bite the bullet and accept that space and time are not fundamental. watch
« I'm disagreeing with both points so the two critical points of their simulation hypothesis I think are false »He rejects both assumptions of Bostrom-style simulation theory: fundamental physics and computer-made consciousness. watch
« strictly speaking what I'm doing is is philosophically idealism »He says that strictly speaking his view is philosophically idealism, close to Bernardo Kastrup's. watch
2025The trace logic
He says that in the previous six months he found what he calls the trace logic, a way to join two conscious agents into one, from which he hopes to derive the structure of space-time. He stresses that it is not yet proven.
In their words« I'm not going back to the authority »He says he does not appeal to authority, and that consciousness-first has so far given no technology or precise mathematics. watch
« So spacetime isn't the final reality »He says space-time is a trivial part of the reality that opens up when we step outside it. watch
« it's the consciousness that's first »He says consciousness is first and gives rise to space-time. watch
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He says he was prompted by how little progress physicalist approaches have made on the hard problem of consciousness, and starts from consciousness instead. He proposes to solve the reverse problem: how conscious agents create what we call brains.
He says Leibniz had the same idea in the Monadology: perceiving entities are more fundamental than the physical world, and neurons cannot create consciousness.
He agrees with Kant that we do not see nature as it is and that space and time are forms of our perception, but says Kant was wrong to think Euclidean space-time is a priori.
He says there is a lot in common with Berkeley, but he avoids the word idealism because it is often tied to anti-science and anti-realism. He wants a mathematically precise, testable theory of a real network of conscious agents.
He likes the point that we do not see reality as it is, but disagrees on two things: the bottom level is not physical space-time, and computation cannot give rise to conscious experience.
He answers illusionists (Dennett, Frankish, Graziano) that consciousness does not seem to him an illusion, and that if it is, they owe a scientific account of the illusion.
Allies and opponents
BBernardo KastrupClose
He says his view is philosophically idealism and closest to Kastrup's analytical idealism.
FFederico FagginClose
A close friend; they agree that one fundamental consciousness takes many perspectives on itself, but he objects to the word 'fields', which suggests quantum fields in space-time.
RRupert SpiraClose
He says he and Rupert Spira are substantially in agreement: his mathematics also says there is one ultimate consciousness that no mathematics can fully describe.
SSwami SarvapriyanandaClose
He says he would listen to Advaita Vedanta with the same grain of salt he gives scientists, and finds the top-level ideas very similar to his.
Roger PenroseDisagrees
He says the quantum model of consciousness by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff does not go far enough.
Nick BostromDisagrees
He agrees with Nick Bostrom that we do not see reality as it is, but rejects a physical bottom level and the idea that programs make consciousness.
Daniel DennettDisagrees
He disagrees with Daniel Dennett and Keith Frankish, who treat consciousness as an illusion.
GGiulio TononiDisagrees
He has asked Tononi to explain one specific experience, such as the taste of chocolate, with integrated information theory, and says no theory of this kind can.
MMichael GrazianoDisagrees
He answers Graziano's view that there are only illusions of conscious experience by asking for a scientific account of them.
Debates and big conversations
Signature ideas
Interface theory of perception
Perception works like a desktop interface: it hides the underlying reality and shows only what guides useful behaviour. With collaborators he reports a theorem and simulations claiming that organisms tuned to truth cannot outcompete organisms tuned to fitness. Later he uses the image of a virtual reality headset that evolution gave us to play the game of life.
Conscious realism
Reality is 'a vast social network of interacting conscious agents'. Space and time are 'just a data structure', a user interface, not the ground of things. Mathematics is the bones of consciousness, but not all of it.
Neurons are icons, not causes
He says the brain is a symbol in our headset with no causal powers: no neural activity causes experience, the other way round holds. He still wants more funding for neuroscience, because what lies behind the icons is far more complicated.
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- Donald D. Hoffman (Wikipedia) Wikipedia
- What is reality? Interview with Donald Hoffman Psychology Today · 2019
- The Reality Illusion (Making Sense, episode 178) Making Sense (Sam Harris) · 2019
- The Case Against Reality (w/ Prof. Donald Hoffman) ZDoggMD · 2019
- The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality Quanta Magazine (Amanda Gefter) · 2016
- Donald Hoffman (transcript), The Tim Ferriss Show #585 The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022
- Entangling Conscious Agents, Donald Hoffman (talk) YouTube · 2014
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- The Case Against Reality, Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube (ZDoggMD) · 2019
- The Case Against Reality, Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube (ZDoggMD) · 2019
- The Case Against Reality, Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube (ZDoggMD) · 2019
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
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- We Live in a Simulation. The evidence is everywhere (Impact Theory) YouTube (Impact Theory) · 2023
- We Live in a Simulation. The evidence is everywhere (Impact Theory) YouTube (Impact Theory) · 2023
- Conscious Reality: Unraveling the Mind, Swami Sarvapriyananda and Donald Hoffman YouTube (Philosophy Babble) · 2023
- Conscious Reality: Unraveling the Mind, Swami Sarvapriyananda and Donald Hoffman YouTube (Philosophy Babble) · 2023
- Seeing Through the Simulation and Cosmic Consciousness (Third Eye Drops) YouTube (Third Eye Drops) · 2023
- Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life YouTube · 2024
- Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life YouTube · 2024
- The Emerging Science: We Are ONE Consciousness (Know Thyself) YouTube (Know Thyself) · 2024
- The Emerging Science: We Are ONE Consciousness (Know Thyself) YouTube (Know Thyself) · 2024
- The Greatest Discovery About Reality and the Consciousness Behind It YouTube · 2025
- The Greatest Discovery About Reality and the Consciousness Behind It YouTube · 2025
- BREAKTHROUGH: How Consciousness Creates the Simulation (Third Eye Drops) YouTube (Third Eye Drops) · 2026
- The Basement: Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Math, and the Case for Letting Go YouTube (The Basement) · 2026
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293 YouTube · 2022
- Conscious Reality: Unraveling the Mind | Swami Sarvapriyananda & Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2023
- The Case Against Reality | Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube · 2019
- BREAKTHROUGH: How Consciousness Creates the Simulation | Dr. Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2026
- Donald Hoffman - Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life YouTube · 2024
- How Consciousness Shapes the Universe | Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2025
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293 YouTube · 2022
- The Case Against Reality | Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube · 2019
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293 YouTube · 2022
- Does Consciousness Survive Death? — Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2022
- Does Consciousness Survive Death? — Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2022
- We Live in a Simulation. The evidence is everywhere. All you have to do is look. | Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2023
- Donald Hoffman - Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life YouTube · 2024
- The Greatest Discovery About Reality & the Consciousness Behind It | Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2025
- The Emerging Science: “We Are ONE Consciousness” - Life, Death & The Simulation | Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2024
- The Case Against Reality | Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube · 2019
- We Live in a Simulation. The evidence is everywhere. All you have to do is look. | Donald Hoffman YouTube · 2023
- The Greatest Discovery About Reality and the Consciousness Behind It YouTube · 2025
- The Emerging Science: We Are ONE Consciousness (Know Thyself) YouTube (Know Thyself) · 2024
- Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life YouTube · 2024
- The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (Part One), Donald Hoffman and Rupert Spira YouTube (Rupert Spira) · 2023
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
- The Case Against Reality, Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube (ZDoggMD) · 2019
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
- The Basement: Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Math, and the Case for Letting Go YouTube (The Basement) · 2026
- The Emerging Science: We Are ONE Consciousness (Know Thyself) YouTube (Know Thyself) · 2024
- Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life YouTube · 2024
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
- Is there an Infinite Mind? Donald Hoffman, The Case Against Reality YouTube (Waking Cosmos) · 2020
- Donald Hoffman on Consciousness and Conscious Agents | Closer To Truth Chats YouTube · 2020
- The Basement: Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Math, and the Case for Letting Go YouTube (The Basement) · 2026
- Is there an Infinite Mind? Donald Hoffman, The Case Against Reality YouTube (Waking Cosmos) · 2020
- Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life YouTube · 2024
- The Emerging Science: We Are ONE Consciousness (Know Thyself) YouTube (Know Thyself) · 2024
- The Case Against Reality, Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube (ZDoggMD) · 2019
- Is there an Infinite Mind? Donald Hoffman, The Case Against Reality YouTube (Waking Cosmos) · 2020
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
- BREAKTHROUGH: How Consciousness Creates the Simulation (Third Eye Drops) YouTube (Third Eye Drops) · 2026
- Does Consciousness Survive Death? Donald Hoffman (Tim Ferriss) YouTube (The Tim Ferriss Show) · 2022
- How Consciousness Shapes the Universe, Donald Hoffman (recorded 2023) YouTube · 2025
- How Consciousness Shapes the Universe, Donald Hoffman (recorded 2023) YouTube · 2025
- Seeing Through the Simulation and Cosmic Consciousness (Third Eye Drops) YouTube (Third Eye Drops) · 2023
- BREAKTHROUGH: How Consciousness Creates the Simulation (Third Eye Drops) YouTube (Third Eye Drops) · 2026
- The Basement: Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Math, and the Case for Letting Go YouTube (The Basement) · 2026
- Entangling Conscious Agents, Donald Hoffman (talk) YouTube · 2014
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
- The Greatest Discovery About Reality and the Consciousness Behind It YouTube · 2025
- Donald Hoffman on Consciousness and Conscious Agents | Closer To Truth Chats YouTube · 2020
- The Case Against Reality, Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube (ZDoggMD) · 2019
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
- Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion, How Evolution Hid the Truth (Lex Fridman Podcast #293) YouTube (Lex Fridman Podcast) · 2022
- Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Mysteries Beyond Spacetime, and Waking up from the Dream of Life YouTube · 2024
- Is there an Infinite Mind? Donald Hoffman, The Case Against Reality YouTube (Waking Cosmos) · 2020
- The Greatest Discovery About Reality and the Consciousness Behind It YouTube · 2025
- BREAKTHROUGH: How Consciousness Creates the Simulation (Third Eye Drops) YouTube (Third Eye Drops) · 2026
- The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (Part One), Donald Hoffman and Rupert Spira YouTube (Rupert Spira) · 2023
- The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (Part One), Donald Hoffman and Rupert Spira YouTube (Rupert Spira) · 2023
- Conscious Reality: Unraveling the Mind, Swami Sarvapriyananda and Donald Hoffman YouTube (Philosophy Babble) · 2023
- The Case Against Reality, Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory YouTube (ZDoggMD) · 2019
- The Basement: Donald Hoffman, Consciousness, Math, and the Case for Letting Go YouTube (The Basement) · 2026
- The Greatest Discovery About Reality and the Consciousness Behind It YouTube · 2025