The Big Picture

Armando Martínez De La Riva

Donald Hoffman of UCLA Irvine makes the case that humans can never perceive the reality of the world around us. As he puts it, our brains evolved to ensure survival on the savannah, not for perceiving reality as it is…We don’t see the electron and proton soup that these animals are made of because it doesn’t have survival value…even with our best scientific instruments, we cannot see reality. Even the electrons and protons that we observe are only…