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Ep. 533: Donald Hoffman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Donald Hoffman
Donald Hoffman

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My guest today is Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine. He studies how our visual perception, guided by millions of years of natural selection, authors every aspect of our everyday reality. His research is about uncovering the underlying secrets of human perception. Donald has discovered clues that point to our subjective nature of reality. According to Donald, we actively create everything we see. Donald started to learn how to program at a very early age. This is what got him thinking: Are we just machines, or actual humans?

The topic is cognitive psychology.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Are we robot or human?
  • Evolution
  • Reality vs. Perception of reality
  • Natural selection
  • Pushing theories to their limits

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Ep. 484: Evolution with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Evolution with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Evolution with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Evolution with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Evolution
  • Looking at the data
  • Natural selection
  • Long term macro evolution and short term evolution
  • Fossils do not prove evolution
  • Comparing animal and human bodies
  • Evolutionary arms race

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Ep. 435: Steven Pinker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker

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My guest today is Steven Pinker, a Canadian-born American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. He covers phenomena that have traditionally not been looked at scientifically such as: visual perception, war and peace, and differences in writing styles. He has authored numerous books with his most recent being, “The Sense of Style.”

The topics are his books The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century and Blank Slate.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Evolution
  • Natural selection
  • War statistics
  • Cognitive science
  • Evolutionary psychology

“I don’t think there is any single procedure called the scientific method. I think that science just is the attempt to explain phenomena using explanations that you can show to the best of your ability are true.” – Steven Pinker

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