Why interface theory matters here
The Coherence Network reads Hoffman alongside Michael Levin and Castaneda because the three reach the same load-bearing recognition from different sides. Castaneda: perception is an assembled rendering from one specific position on the luminous-egg energy body; move the position, the world rearranges. Hoffman: perception is a fitness-tuned interface; evolution never built our eyes to see truth, only to keep our ancestors alive. Levin: pattern is what stores morphological memory, and bodies are nested problem-solvers carrying their own goals; substrate is contingent. All three pull apart the assumption that what we see is what is.
What Hoffman adds specifically is mathematical credibility — a theorem with published peer review behind the claim. Where the contemplative traditions assert this from the inside, and Levin shows it bioelectrically, Hoffman proves it formally under his evolutionary-game-theory model. The body holds all three as one teaching at different scales of demonstration.