How quantum mechanics lets us see, smell and touch
How quantum mechanics lets us see, smell and touch
- October 24, 2018
- Don Hoffman, cog sci, via Discover Magazine, Oct. 24, 2018
-----
Donald Hoffman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine,
believes that our senses and brain evolved to hide the true nature of reality, not
to reveal it. … His ideas align with what some physicists believe to be a central
message of quantum theory: Reality is not completely objective — we cannot separate
ourselves from the world we observe. Hoffman fully embraces that view.
For the full story, please visit http://discovermagazine.com/2018/nov/your-daily-dose-of-quantum.
-----
Would you like to get more involved with the social sciences? Email us at communications@socsci.uci.edu to connect.
Share on:
Related News Items
- Careet RightTranscendent Leadership: How Understanding Consciousness Elevates Business
- Careet RightDonald Hoffman on free will, positive geometries of consciousness & spacetime
- Careet RightConsciousness and the illusion of reality | Dr. Donald Hoffman
- Careet RightTesting a time-jumping, multiverse-killing, consciousness-spawning theory of reality
- Careet RightWhat you see and feel is not reality | Dr. Donald Hoffman | EP 387