Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman | TED" video.

  1. ***** What is up for discussion is how we miss seeing reality and why? Makes me thing of the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" which goes through a huge list of logical errors people make when they apply or misapply their brains. Another one is "Simple Truths, Vital Lies" which explains in logical detail how and why we de-focus on certain things.
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  2. MultiGoban Actually, the big bang is nothing really physical ... it is not a ... proper noun ... it is an virtual noun, an idea. So, it's not really the hardware. The hardware would be all the tools and things that amplify our senses and allow us to model reality past the temporal 2D vision inside our eyeballs. The pixels would be the telescopes and measurements that tell us that the model or something like the Big Bang might explain some things we have noticed about other things we have noticed about other things that we have noticed .... ;-)
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  3. I figure, if you have something to say, please say it without fluffing it up by talking about a genie, particularly for the unnecessary Arab/Islamic references.  God, what a waste of time the way he building this up is gratingly slow.  Red tomatoes ... yawn.  Now, way back in history to the flat Earth.  Can't you make a point without wasting everyone in the audience's time by rehashing everything everyone already knows. 3:32 - Neuroscientist tell us that about 1/3 of the cortex is engaged with vision. Even the camera reference to anyone younger than about 70 is out-dated and does not need to be rehashed.  We all know what the eye looks like. 4:05 - 130 million photo receptors. Then we go and talk about optical illiusions which is also something everyone pretty much that cares understands what they mean. 6:35 - in the normal case our perceptions are accurate Yawn ... vision is only vision, but reconstructing the world as he calls it is perception with a lot more depth and uncertainty than just vision. 8 minutes for a cheap beer joke. 9 minutes for an animal intercourse joke. How closely we see the world is dependent on looking back and seeing what turned out to be important and useful.  Every organisms with "accurate" perceptions of reality has imperfect perception.  6:58 - Just start here for the question posed and the no answer, another slow way to go to the point. And the theory of evolution is not the straw man he seems to want to make it out to be. And evolution is not about children, it's about not want to die, ever, not wanting the light of consciousness to go out, and since you/I are the closest conscious objects and we find ways to value each other more or less and use each other more or less, but it is all about individuals too ... or otherwise what is sexual selection?
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  4. Vexed Films These condescending scientists, especially the ones that really do not have much to say, rehash the whole history of the world to pad a talk, this guy started with the flat Earth. If the internet were really efficient this talk, this idea could be expressed in just a minute or two, and then linked to valuable discussions and insights, and then to other related subjects. It's been around popularly for 20 years now, wonder why are standards for saying something are not higher? ;-)
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  5. >> Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? My gut reaction would be not hardly.  We see our own reality as reality because we are so blind to all the stuff we do not see or are busy avoding!  ;-)
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