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Cognitive Scientist Proves Evolution Shaped Us to See Zero Percent of Reality
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MIT Scientist: “Your Brain Evolved To Ignore Aliens – They’re Everywhere!”
"What we discovered is the probability that any sensory system has ever been shaped to see any true feature of objective reality. When you do the math, the answer is zero. Exactly zero."
Don Hoffman, cognitive scientist at UC Irvine, presented evolutionary game theory theorems proving evolution optimizes fitness, not truth perception. Using mathematical models, he demonstrated that natural selection shapes sensory systems to aid survival, not to reveal objective reality. This challenges the assumption that our perceptions correspond to the world as it actually is.
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