Donald D. Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine …. has spent the past three decades studying perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory and the brain, and his conclusion is a dramatic one: The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality. What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction. … Quanta Magazine caught up with him to find out more.

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