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PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality

PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality

FromThe Next Big Idea


PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality

FromThe Next Big Idea

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Nov 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What you see is what you get, right? Nope. In his mind-bending new book, "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes," Don Hoffman argues that what we see, smell, touch, and taste are illusions. Reality, he says, is just an interface, like a computer desktop, built by our brains to conceal complexity. Hoffman offers us the red pill and invites us into "The Matrix" — the surreal, flickering, unreliable "real" world.
Released:
Nov 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join our host, Rufus Griscom — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.