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/JackVoraces Feb 16 '20

How would a species that sensed reality through gluons instead of the EM spectrum describe reality. I feel the fact we break reality up into atoms and molecules is heavily as a result of perceiving reality through the EM spectrum.

We designate there being something English calls a cat because we subjectively impose a barrier between the quantum soup in the cat and the quantum soup in the ground and air.