Why You Don't Need The Truth to Survive | Donald Hoffman

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Published on August 1, 2019 3:00:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__OGBWfO-0

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Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman outlines the differences between critical and illusory perception, why seeing 'true' reality may endanger a species' survival, and why we will never be able to describe true reality.

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Seeing is believing. Seeing is the truth. But cognitive scientists have seemingly exposed this belief as flawed. In fact, Evolution encourages us to perceive what is best for survival, which turns out to have little to do with what we call 'reality'. Is reality then a creative construct that we use to aid our survival? Are physical objects merely useful hallucinations? Or is the very idea of reality a mistake, and our senses have just got it wrong?


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Donald Hoffman: Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, Donald Hoffman first suggested the Multimodal User Interface of reality and consciousness.

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