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

The Dissenter

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Seeing the Truth Will Drive You Extinct

The idea is that our sensory systems have been shaped by natural selection to report truths about these pre-existing objects not of course exhaustive truth no evolutionary biologists thinks that we're seeing all of the truth. An organism that sees any aspect of reality as it is is never more fit than one that sees absolutely nothing of reality and is just tuned to the fitness payoffs so in other words seeing the truth will drive you extinct.

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