Ep. 87 | We're Not Seeing What's Actually Real

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of reality and how evolution may have influenced our perception of it.

Did evolution hide reality from us? Timestamps: 0:00-Intro 4:47-Experience is an Illusion 10:04-What is Our Brain Constructing? 20:51-Is This Compatible With Realism? 24:34-is Pain Fake? 27:43-Optical Illusions 46:27-The Expectation Effect 49:30-What's Actually Real? 1:05:24-Kirk Cameron 1:12:11-Does Natural Selection Select Truth? 1:41:39-Why Aren't Truth And Fitness the Same? 1:50:05-Isn't This Self Refuting? 1:55:59-Game

Topics covered

• evolution
• reality
• perception
• illusion
• truth
• natural selection

Keywords

• evolution
• reality
• illusion
• pain
• optical illusions
• expectation effect
• natural selection
• truth
• fitness

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