We're all living in a 'conceptual prison': Our brains perceive a fraction of reality to keep us alive
We're all living in a 'conceptual prison': Our brains perceive a fraction of reality to keep us alive
- September 1, 2016
- Don Hoffman, cognitive scientist, explains in Wired, Sept. 1, 2016
Seeing may be believing but, says cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, it shouldn't
be. … Hoffman, a professor at University of California, Irvine, … has spent 30 years
studying how perception misses the mark. … "Every bit of information that you process
costs calories, meaning that's more food you need to kill and eat. So an organism
that sees all of reality would never be more fit than one tuned only to see what it
needs to survive."
For the full story, please visit http://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-reality-of-survival.
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