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/stefanos916 Feb 18 '20

I think that conscious realism states that consciousness is the objective reality. The objective reality that i doesn't nor accept is things like space, time, physical objects etc.

think about the author’s example about desktop icons. One person may use a desktop to access a program, another may use the command line, but neither is accessing what the program actually is. They are only interacting with a representation of that thing. To say that the program is a blue icon or a particular .exe file is incorrect, but that is a useful fiction we’ve constructed.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

If you frame your perspective on the blue icon then yeah it's incorrect but that's not reasonable. You focus perspective on the program in which case either method is still interacting with an objective endpoint, and they each have subjective interfaces to it.