The Reality Illusion | Full Q&A | Donald Hoffman, Maria Baghramian, Hilary Lawson
94Donald Hoffman, Maria Baghramian and Hilary Lawson answer your questions on reality, realism, and evolution.
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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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Donald Hoffman: Donald Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. His forthcoming book, 'The Case Against Reality', argues that perception doesn’t present things as they are but instead acts like a desktop interface enabling us to interact with the world.
Maria Baghramian: Professor Maria Baghramian is head of University College Dublin's philosophy department. She is an expert on metaphysical relativism writing Relativism for the Problems of Philosophy series.
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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