{"id":94684,"date":"2019-08-12T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/did-we-evolve-to-see-reality-as-it-exists-no-says-cognitive-psychologist-donald-hoffman"},"modified":"2019-08-12T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:03:53","slug":"did-we-evolve-to-see-reality-as-it-exists-no-says-cognitive-psychologist-donald-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/did-we-evolve-to-see-reality-as-it-exists-no-says-cognitive-psychologist-donald-hoffman","title":{"rendered":"Did we evolve to see reality as it exists? No, says cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-we-evolve-to-see-reality-as-it-exists-no-says-cognitive-psychologist-donald-hoffman.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is reality and how do we know? For many the answer is simple: What you see \u2014 hear, feel, touch, and taste \u2014 is what you get.<\/p>\n<p>Your skin feels warm on a summer day because the sun exists. That apple you just tasted sweet and that left juices on your fingers, it must have existed. Our senses tell us that reality is there, and we use reason to fill in the blanks \u2014 that is, we know the sun doesn\u2019t cease to exist at night even if we can\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/robby-berman\/we-survive-because-reality-may-be-nothing-like-we-think-it-is\" target=\"_blank\">cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman<\/a> says we\u2019re misunderstanding our relationship with objective reality. In fact, he argues that evolution has cloaked us in a perceptional virtual reality. For our own good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is reality and how do we know? For many the answer is simple: What you see \u2014 hear, feel, touch, and taste \u2014 is what you get. Your skin feels warm on a summer day because the sun exists. That apple you just tasted sweet and that left juices on your fingers, it must [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}