
Donald Hoffman: What is Reality?
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The Importance of Recognizing Reality
There's empirical evidence that there are multiple maps so there's this is this would be fun for philosophers i mean and you guys know about mala no's problem right the mala no. Locke talked about that suppose a man born blind um but can by his hand can distinguish a sphere from a cube just by looking. Pawan Sinha did the experiments in 2003 with people in India that he he went and and did surgeries to help people get over cataracts and they tested them immediately and the answer is no people cannot tell why visual they don't do it. The bottom line for against the cognitive scientist is once you take all the fitness payoff functions and start to cluster them you
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