Donald Hoffman, cognitive scientist, and professor, asks, do we see the world as it truly is? ⁠In The Case Against Reality, TW: @donalddhoffman pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no. We see what we need in order to survive. Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection. Imagine we were all born with lenses, that put us in a video game, how would we know? The objects we see around us are not unlike the file icons on our computer desktops: while shaped like a small folder on our screens, the files themselves are made of a series of ones and zeros - too complex for most of us to understand. In a similar way, Hoffman argues, evolution has shaped our perceptions into simplistic illusions to help us navigate the world around us. Yet now these illusions can be manipulated by advertising and design. Follow Professor Hoffman: TW: @donalddhoffman |
https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff
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Drawing on thirty years of Hoffman's own influential research, as well as evolutionary biology, game theory, neuroscience, and philosophy, The Case Against Reality makes the mind-bending yet utterly convincing case that the world is nothing like what we see through our eyes.

Donald Hoffman's books, and papers, are easy to read and understand.

Books:

Fusions of consciousness, Fact, Fiction, and Fitness, and Objects of consciousness.

LinkedIn | TW: @donalddhoffman⁠

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