The Trace Institute brings together cognitive scientists, mathematicians, theoretical physicists, and neuroscientists — collaborating across disciplines on a single research program.
Author of The Case Against Reality. Originator of the interface theory of perception. Hoffman's work proposes that natural selection has shaped human perception not to reveal objective reality but to deliver fitness payoffs.
Co-architect of conscious agent theory and the Fitness-Beats-Truth theorem. Prakash's mathematical work formalizes the dynamics of interacting conscious subjects and the recovery of physical structure as emergent.
Architect of Trace Logic and the Institute's research program. Focused on the formal framework underlying agent dynamics and the derivation of physics from a substrate of consciousness.
Leading theoretical physicist whose work on the amplituhedron and positive geometries has reframed the foundations of spacetime in modern physics.
Neuroscientist at the Centre for Psychedelic Research. Investigator of consciousness, perception, and the neural correlates of altered states.
Author of Reality Switch Technologies. Researcher of DMT, perception, and the structure of experience across non-ordinary states.