Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman

I love and applaud TED Talks such as this.  The only caveat that I would add is that the talk seems to assume that evolution is part of a true reality....I would propose that evolution is also only part of our perceived reality and not true reality!

Este individuo se parece a Macri. jajjaja

This means Trump supporters are more evolved

ha ha he sounds like a sat nav

Anyone can do the next experiment. You hold a small dumbbell, 1 kg in weight, in your hand, talk with someone else about something and look at your dumbbell. After a time you will look at the person you are talking to, forgot about the weight in your hand, forgot about the feeling, the perception of the weight. The perception is the reality of the weight in your hand and is no more. Thus you don't feel it and in the process you don't look at it. Until the anatomical process of your body reminds you that you are being tired after some time and you should be careful to not drop your dumbell on your foot.

His voice sounds like Microsoft's old Text-To-Voice model.

This is what is predicted by Bhaskar and Critical Realism as well as Piaget and Pragmatism. I wonder if one day in the future our fetish for positivism will be treated in the same was as we treat mythology now.

Saying that evolutionary selection pressures are away from reality in perception is just wrong, or greatly misleading at best, because realistic perceptions are a core component of fitness itself. The exact same logic and graph could be used to say that evolution does not favor hunting ability in lions because fitness always trumps hunting ability. The correct statement would be that evolution doesn't always 100% favor reality in perception. But that 1% of the time it doesn't like optical illusions doesn't say much about the other 99% of the time that we have other valid reasons to believe that it does. In fact he's using the 99% in order to prove the 1% in the first place. If reality is actually a computer or "network of consciouses" rather than a physical world, then our perceptions of evolution itself are irrelevant anyway.

Well, would not that be contradictory? I mean, in the end of lecture, the professor told how it's different the Realism Scientific. Now, the idea advocated is not, precisely, an association between adaptation and the search of the truth, being that this searching meaning a fragility of the Human specie?

Evolution and ITP @ 11:33

13:40 "Evolution has shaped us with perception symbols", "We should take them seriously but not literally"
Nicely put

And so survival belongs to those who can, not most accurately sense reality, instead construct an easily reactable perception of reality. If you are able to reconstruct reality as a place where you can get by simply by snapping your fingers to survive then you've outmatched every other life form we know of.

если у меня плохое зрение, это значит, что я неправильно воспринимаю реальность, и вовсе не в глазах проблема ? и что же тогда мешает мне воспринимать реальность ? и какую реальность мне помогают воспринимать очки

so stop lying

galileo nor copernicus...discoverd the roundness of the earth...it was way before them in the muslim world that muslim scientists already proofed what has been mentioned in their holy book the quran...that the earth is round

Hello Daniel Dennett...still think you came through on Dawkin's Ark?

Our brains are vastly different from computers. If we designed a computer that has the storage capacity of the human brain, it would require about 10 Tera watts. The human brain only uses about 10 watts. Think on that. lol

simulation theory is becoming more mainstream.

Conclusion: we all live in Matrix. Mission of our "real" life to make offsprings. Who for and why?

if your not in the moment sensing just air, or deep into math, i don't think you have a sense of reality as it is.