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#89: Consciousness, Perception & Reality - Donald Hoffman, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
Is There a Relationship Between Reality and Evolution?
evolutionary theory tells us that a sensory systems evolved not to show organisms the truth, but specifically to hide the truth. And so this is really a profound finding, just in terms of our moment by moment experience of the world. So if you're seeing a face on the screen as we're talking over zom, what i'm seeing is really an icon that's no different then the folder on my desk top that looks blue, but is, you know, a bunch of ones and zurosand in the hard drive. Whether evolutionary theory is true or not is a separate question, right? But all i can say is, it's the best science we have so far, and that's
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