Is There a Difference Between Survival Perception and Veritical Perception?

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Tisscastle's theory deals with the debate about veritical perception versus survival perception. We evolve to get an accurate model of the world, but there are nero scientists who say it just gives us the ability to survive and pass on. So this gets at like, species specific perception. What's it like to be a bat? You now, i can't no, a. And therefore, what ver, let's say your book looks like to a bat, it's not going to look like it does to me. Tisscastle: 'The brain is very, very flexible. It'll say, i'll take whatever stignal you are giving me'

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