Saturday Apr 02, 2016
Living the Quantum Dream with Cynthia Sue Larson
Perception, Truth, and Reality with Donald Hoffman What if the world we see isn't actually the true reality? Donald Hoffman talks with Cynthia Sue Larson about his interface theory of perception, in which what we typically assume to be "out there" is not necessarily reality--but rather something akin to the desktop user interface on a computer. And just as we don't need to execute machine language commands in order to send an email or delete a file, biological evolution has been proven to favor perceptual fitness over truthful completeness and accuracy of perception. As Hoffman writes, "... to experience is to construct, in each modality and without exception," and new findings in quantum physics and quantum biology increasingly provide scientific evidence to show this is true.