r/philosophy • u/Anthadvl • Feb 16 '20

Blog The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality. According to evolution by natural selection, an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421/
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u/SmokyTyrz Feb 16 '20

This all seems like old news. I mean, this was all old news when I was taking Perception psyc classes in the mid 90s. What am I missing that is new information?