The Case Against #Reality by Hoffman is a wonderful read. If you’d like to learn more about biological consciousness, models of adaptation, and challenge all your preconceived notions about the #veridicality of the “visible” universe as a consciousness emerged from evolution, this #book is a thrill ride!
Currently in a section about how our brain compresses information for adapted responses.
E.g.
“Our perceptions are a species-specific user interface, not a window on truth, and its underlying code is a sea of kludges, punctuated by islands of inadvertent brilliance. Vision does not approximate an ideal observer who recovers objective truths. It is an interface kludged together on the cheap. It tells us just enough about fitness to keep us alive in our niche long enough to raise kids.”
