Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.

View online, courtesy of TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is

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