Is Reality Really Real? With Donald Hoffman
ConsciousnessPhilosophy of mind
Did evolution never give us the ability to see reality as it actually is? Neil deGrasse Tyson, with Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, sits down with cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman to ask what neuroscience, evolutionary game theory, and consciousness together suggest about the nature of reality — and whether perception was ever selected for accuracy in the first place.