Scientist or researcher

Donald Hoffman

2015-01-01year known, day not recorded

University of California, Irvine cognitive scientist whose "interface theory of perception" and "conscious agents" model (The Case Against Reality, 2019) argue that spacetime and objects are a species-specific user interface, not fundamental reality - a view often invoked in consciousness-first readings of the UAP phenomenon.

In the consciousness threadOPERATOR RULING, 25 August 2026. Its role names no specific technique because the technique is not what this entity does - it belongs to the academic consciousness thread, which guardrail 3 makes co-equal here rather than a subsection. An editorial classification, not a sourced claim.

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a frequent presenter

The Science of Consciousness / U. Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies
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allied proponents of a consciousness-first reality

consciousness-is-fundamental / anti-materialist literature
← Bernardo Kastrup names a source we do not hold

leading proponents of consciousness-first, anti-materialist models

consciousness-is-fundamental / anti-materialist literature
← David Chalmers names a source we do not hold

fellow philosophers of mind debating consciousness's fundamentality

philosophy-of-mind literature