Like many on Steemit, I have seen my fair share of Ted Talks. In fact, I have seen so many that I got just plain sick of them! But I recently saw the following video found it to be one of the best, if not the best I'd ever seen. In it he talks about the fact that the human sensory apparatus evolved to in order to maximize our odds of reproducing, not to give us an accurate representation of the world.
"When I have a perceptual experience that I describe as a brain or neurons I am interacting with reality, but that reality is not a brain or neurons and is nothing like a brain or neurons. And that reality is the real source of cause and effect in the world. Not brains. Not neurons. Brains and neurons have no causal powers. They cause none of our perceptual experiences and none of our behavior. Brains and neurons are a species-specific set of symbols ...
Perhaps reality is some vast interacting network of conscious agents simple and complex that cause each others conscious experiences ...
But here's the point. Once we let go of our massively intuitive, but massively false assumption about the nature of reality it opens up new ways to think about life's greatest mystery. I bet that reality will end up turning out to be more fascinating and unexpected than we ever imagined."
