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#212 Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality; Perception, Consciousness, And Reality

The Dissenter

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Seeing an Apple Is No Different Than the Taste of Vanilla

All of our sensory systems that would be operating in this fashion I absolutely agree. Seeing an apple is no different than the taste of vanilla it's completely arbitrarily related to the objective reality and only a reported fitness payoff. Most of my colleagues wouldn't say that we're seeing the truth they would say of course there are arbitrary relationship between smell and taste. It's just a matter of learning you know that thatthat taste is okay it's not going to kill you that it's actually healthy.

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