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So the idea is that evolution has given us an interface that hides reality and guides adaptive behavior.

It's like saying, I know that that blue icon on the desktop is not the reality of the computer, but if I pull out my trusty magnifying glass and look really closely, I see little pixels, and that's the reality of the computer.

We're inclined to think that perception is like a window on reality as it is.

Instead, reality is more like a 3D desktop that's designed to hide the complexity of the real world and guide adaptive behavior.

Then we thought that the Earth is the unmoving center of reality because it looks that way.

Now we believe that spacetime and objects are the nature of reality as it is.

By peering through the lens of a telescope we discovered that the Earth is not the unmoving center of reality, and by peering through the lens of the theory of evolution we discovered that spacetime and objects are not the nature of reality.

When I have a perceptual experience that I describe as a red tomato, I am interacting with reality, but that reality is not a red tomato and is nothing like a red tomato.

Similarly, when I have an experience that I describe as a lion or a steak, I'm interacting with reality, but that reality is not a lion or a steak.

And here's the kicker: When I have a perceptual experience that I describe as a brain, or neurons, I am interacting with reality, but that reality is not a brain or neurons and is nothing like a brain or neurons.

For instance, perhaps reality is some vast machine that causes our conscious experiences.

Perhaps reality is some vast, interacting network of conscious agents, simple and complex, that cause each other's conscious experiences.

But here's the point: Once we let go of our massively intuitive but massively false assumption about the nature of reality, it opens up new ways to think about life's greatest mystery.

I bet that reality will end up turning out to be more fascinating and unexpected than we've ever imagined.

I mean, first of all, some people may just be profoundly depressed at the thought that, if evolution does not favor reality, I mean, doesn't that to some extent undermine all our endeavors here, all our ability to think that we can think the truth, possibly even including your own theory, if you go there?

What we have is one theory that turned out to be false, that perception is like reality and reality is like our perceptions.

That doesn't stop us from now postulating all sorts of other theories about the nature of reality, so it's actually progress to recognize that one of our theories was false.

The evolutionary game simulations that I showed were specifically about perception, and they do show that our perceptions have been shaped not to show us reality as it is, but that does not mean the same thing about our logic or mathematics.

Berkeley thought that, he was a deist, and he thought that the ultimate nature of reality is God and so forth, and I don't need to go where Berkeley's going, so it's quite a bit different from Berkeley.

It's a valuable awareness of impermanence, both a kind of gentle, transient sadness as things pass by in life, but also a deeper, softly lingering sadness about the impermanence of all reality.

So if the world is not as it seems and we see things as we are, then what we call reality is a kind of hallucination happening inside here.

And in my other, I hold the humbling reality that I am just one woman.

What they saw made clear that Kanner's model was way too narrow, while the reality of autism was much more colorful and diverse.

And as a sister and later, as a scientist, I wanted to understand, why is it that I can take my dreams, I can connect them to my reality, and I can make my dreams come true?

What is it about my brother's brain and his schizophrenia that he cannot connect his dreams to a common and shared reality, so they instead become delusion?

And it was as though my consciousness had shifted away from my normal perception of reality, where I'm the person on the machine having the experience, to some esoteric space where I'm witnessing myself having this experience.

And in that moment, I would be able to reattach to normal reality and I could tell that's not the card... that's not the card.

So I had to wield my paralyzed arm like a stump and cover the numbers as I went along and pushed them, so that as I would come back to normal reality, I'd be able to tell, "Yes, I've already dialed that number."

And my mind was now suspended between two very opposite planes of reality.

With the emergence of new platforms like interactive television, virtual reality and video games, it can become a new form of entertainment and maybe even a new form of art.

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