The Case Against Reality
Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
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The Case Against Reality
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Narrated by:
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Timothy Andrés Pabon
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By:
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Donald Hoffman
About this listen
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth?
Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.
Ever since Homo sapiens has walked the earth, natural selection has favored perception that hides the truth and guides us toward useful action, shaping our senses to keep us alive and reproducing. We observe a speeding car and do not walk in front of it; we see mold growing on bread and do not eat it. These impressions, though, are not objective reality. Just like a file icon on a desktop screen is a useful symbol rather than a genuine representation of what a computer file looks like, the objects we see every day are merely icons, allowing us to navigate the world safely and with ease.
The real-world implications for this discovery are huge. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 by Donald Hoffman. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.What listeners say about The Case Against Reality
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- Robert Collins
- 23-02-2021
Extremely intriguing
The last bit of the book with all the maths kinda went over my head but the rest of the book was very interesting.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-07-2020
Out there.
The central theme suggests that space time is not real, just an illusion we see due to evolutionary processes. A lot was above my head but I got annoyed with the author hammering the same theory over and over. Telling me that illustrations were in the accompanying pdf ad nauseam was irritating. Speaking of which if Audible can't supply the pdf file of illustrations, there's not much point listening to the audio book as it's referred to a lot.
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- Paul Floyd
- 24-04-2020
Very insightful.
Very insightful. I enjoyed the dissection and reformulating of the theories. More on the usefulness of such theories would have given the book more impudence. A little humour would have made the volume of theories more palettable. Over I enjoyed it immensely. Thank you.
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- John Lyons
- 06-05-2021
Brilliant!
So grateful Mr. Hoffman thoroughly enjoyed it and learned so much. A wonderful piece of work.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-03-2022
Please, no more about the red apple one meter away
Some interesting theories talked through but a few examples were very repetitive. A lot of "what isn't there" and how to (dis)prove its existence but not very helpful in the "what is there" department. Definitely some out-there concepts that'll be fun to bring up at parties but this came across more like philosophy than science. The publishers notes on this site say the accompanying PDF with all the mind-blowing demonstrations is to be found in my Audible library but I can't see it anywhere.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-07-2023
Worth the listen
Worth the listen in my opinion, enjoy it.
I won’t write much more, bye now.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-10-2019
No PDF with images
This version does not include the much needed PDF which is frequently referenced in the audiobook. Don’t bother.
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