Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.
Steve James wrote:Imo, if "we" don't see "it," then no one does. Someone who does see a different reality must also see the reality we "see." What those people see, especially if it's a genetic ability, is something others will never. But, in terms of evolution, it hasn't been a necessary adaptation. Still, reality is totally independent of human perception. Our brains are simply making enough sense of what we perceive in order to allow us to survive.
Would you say that our ancestors could perceive more than we can?
It's that our only interface with reality is through a construct informed by sense data, memory, and imagination, and that accurate perception of reality itself is less important than being attuned to the particular species and environmental fitness tests.
Dmitri wrote:Just listened to this one a few days ago; that was excellent, FWIW
https://youtu.be/lyu7v7nWzfo
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