Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2026-06-26
Books mentioned on Is Reality Really Real? With Donald Hoffman
Did evolution never give us the ability to see reality as it actually is? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down with cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman to explore what neuroscience, evolutionary game theory, and consciousness suggest about the nature of reality itself.
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Case Against Reality
“And if you have another book, let me know. The case against reality. No. Shots fired.”
Plugged The Case Against Reality
“Before you get there, that's an important question, okay, that I address in my recently published book. Oh, take me to your leader. Uh there's a whole chapter on alien powers that they could have.”
Plugged Visual Intelligence
“I wrote a book in 1998, just the year before the matrix came out, called visual intelligence, how we create what we see, exactly this stuff.”