There is a point where psychology, philosophy and physics of the quantum world all meet. While the connection was dismissed for decades, there is a rising number of scientists that explore the relationship between these disciplines, primarily in order to explain our consciousness. Cognitive scientist, Dr. Hoffman, questions the statement that our senses, without question, give us a feeling of what the reality is, even if we don’t fully comprehend it. After spending decades researching the perception and brain, he is not ready to accept this theory at face value.
Key Takeaways:
- Professor Donald D. Hoffman says the world we perceive is nothing like reality.
- Hoffman believes that evolution dictates that our perceptions are tuned to survival fitness, which isn’t the same as real world truth.
- He says objective reality is nothing but conscious agents all the way down.
“Sure, when we stop and think about it — or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion — we realize with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world directly, but rather our brain’s best guess at what that world is like, a kind of internal simulation of an external reality. Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a reasonably decent one.”
Read more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421/
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