Donald Trump rejects reality? That might make him a great president, cognitive science says
Donald Trump rejects reality? That might make him a great president, cognitive science says
- December 2, 2016
- Cog sci prof Don Hoffman’s research featured by OregonLive, Dec. 2, 2016
Facts are not really facts? Well, it turns out Trump and Hughes just might be onto something important here. Just ask Donald Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. ... Hoffman studies the phenomena we choose to call reality. Our senses are not designed to show us the truth, he argues. Their job is to help us survive, procreate and, yes, win. Wrote Quanta magazine's Amanda Gefter, who interviewed Hoffman earlier this year: "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."
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