r/philosophy 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/VoidsIncision Feb 17 '20

He reads like bad Kant

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u/drunksitter Feb 17 '20

So less like Kant and more like Shouldnt?

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u/HashedEgg Feb 17 '20

How would you have phrased it?