Environmental racism, the world as it isn’t, and a guided tour of the planets: Books in brief
Environmental racism, the world as it isn’t, and a guided tour of the planets: Books in brief
- July 31, 2019
- Don Hoffman, cog sci, and The Case Against Reality reviewed in Nature, July 31, 2019 (Book review)
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The Case Against Reality. We’ve been using the wrong language to describe objective
reality, asserts [UCI] cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman. Teapots, trees and speeding
cars are not objects in space and time. They are instead akin to icons on a 3D computer
desktop — perceptions we need to take “seriously, but not literally”. … Is reality
virtual? It’s a question made even more interesting by this book.
For the full story, please visit https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02302-3.
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