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a new theory by University of California, Irvine, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is garnering attention. Grounded in evolutionary psychology, it is called the interface theory of perception (ITP) and argues that percepts act as a species-specific user interface that directs behavior toward survival and reproduction, not truth.
originally posted by: [post=19971057]
My own feeling has always been that it does not matter whether or not our perceptions are accurate, so long as they are consistent -- and consensual.
How could you consent to an illusion without knowing it was an illusion?
originally posted by: Astyanax
Are we incapable of seeing things as they really are?
originally posted by: Bluesma
a reply to: Astyanax
It always seems to me that it is not the reality of that which is before you that matters, but simply how you decide to relate to it and interact with it.
And being Your very own "Creator" it is up to You. "Change Your thought or You'll get what You've always got..."
This is the sense that there is a thinker who thinks thoughts and who somehow lives in our bodies.