Is There an Objective Reality? | Hilary Lawson

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Published on August 6, 2019 3:00:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MpfgU2LSs4

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Philosopher Hilary Lawson warns of the dangers of seeking an objective reality.

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"Seeing is believing". "Seeing is the truth". Yet cognitive scientists seem to have uncovered these views as incorrect. Evolution led us to perceive what is best for survival and it turns out this has little to do with what we call 'reality'. Is reality then a creative construct that helps us to live but doesn't reflect the world? Are physical objects a useful hallucination? Or is the very idea of reality perhaps a mistake, and neuroscientists have just got it wrong?

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Hilary Lawson: Hilary Lawson is a post-postmodern philosophy who calls for the post-Derridian return to metaphysics. He is author of 'Closure: A Story of Everything' and is the director of the Institute of Art and Ideas.

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