Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Did Humans Evolve to See Things as They Really Are?

Did Humans Evolve to See Things as They Really Are?

Do we perceive reality as it is? One of the deepest problems in epistemology is how we know the nature of reality. Over the millennia philosophers have offered many theories, from solipsism (only one's mind is known to exist) to the theory that natural selection shaped our senses to give us an accurate, or verdical, model of the world. Now a new theory by University of California, Irvine, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is garnering attention.
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