Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Irvine, thinks we’ve been looking at it all wrong. “I’m interested in understanding human conscious experiences and their relationship to the activity of our bodies and brains as we interact within our environment—and that includes the technical challenge of building computer models that mimic it, which is why I’m working on creating a model that explains consciousness,” he says.

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