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Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
Donald D. Hoffman: The Case Against Reality Donald D. Hoffman: The Case Against Reality Donald D. Hoffman: The Case Against Reality

Challenging ​leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.

Ever since Homo sapiens has walked the earth, natural selection has favored perception that hides the truth and guides us toward useful action, shaping our senses to keep us alive and reproducing. We observe a speeding car and do not walk in front of it; we see mold growing on bread and do not eat it. These impressions, though, are not objective reality. Just like a file icon on a desktop screen is a useful symbol rather than a genuine representation of what a computer file looks like, the objects we see every day are… (tovább)

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W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2019
272 oldal · ASIN: B07JR1FDXH
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Penguin, London, 2019
260 oldal · ASIN: B07NMRRJ48
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W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2019
272 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9780393254693

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