
The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald Hoffman
Evolution 2.0
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Evolution's Data Structures
Evolution gave us a useful representation, rather than an absolute truth. And because they have to be useful, our senses are due very much what we do when we build a computer. So done would it be accurate to say that perception is represet nations and even representations of representations? We're using competer science terminology. Now i garbage collect that data structure. It no longer exists. This makes a clean prediction in physics, clean prediction. No physical object has definite values of its physical properties,. like position, momentumous men, when it's not observed. The claim is, technically, something called local realism and nonctextural realism have to be false according to evolution by natural selection
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