Did humans evolve to see things as they really are?
Did humans evolve to see things as they really are?
- October 20, 2015
- Research by Don Hoffman, cognitive sciences professor, is featured by Scientific American Oct. 20, 2015
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From Scientific American:
A new theory by University of California, Irvine, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman
is garnering attention. (Google his scholarly papers and TED talk with more than 1.4
million views.) Grounded in evolutionary psychology, it is called the interface theory
of perception (ITP) and argues that percepts act as a species-specific user interface
that directs behavior toward survival and reproduction, not truth.
For the full story, please visit http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-humans-evolve-to-see-things-as-they-really-are/.
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