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

The Dissenter

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Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Psychology Fitness Payoffs

"Objects themselves are just data structures that we create as we need them and then we garbage collect them we destroy them so this is a radical claim an object like an apple only exists in the moment you perceive it something exists when you're not looking," he says. "We have to rethink perception from a completely evolutionary framework it's about our perception to space and time of physical objects are data structures for fitness payoffs period"

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