What if evolution bred reality out of us?
What if evolution bred reality out of us?
- September 6, 2016
- Don Hoffman, cog sci, courtesy of NPR, Sept. 6, 2016
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For decades [Donald] Hoffman, a professor at the University of California, Irvine,
has been studying the links between evolution, perception and intelligence (both natural
and machine). Based on that body of work, he thinks we've been missing something fundamental
when it comes to fundamental reality.
For the full story, please visit http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/09/06/492779594/what-if-evolution-bred-reality-out-of-us.
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