Donald D. Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman 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.

For the full story, please visit http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illusion-of-reality/479559/.

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