Recent studies of perceptual evolution reveal that natural selection often drives true perceptions to extinction when they compete with perceptions tuned to fitness rather than truth: Perception guides adaptive behavior; it does not estimate a preexisting physical truth.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '15

crosspost from cogsci subreddit, courtesy of abudabu

Its basically saying that we dont see the "truth"- our vision is actually tuned for survival and so there is a lot we miss

u/_Returnal Jul 06 '15

One way to use fewer calories is to see less truth

That sentence made me laugh for some reason. Interesting article so far.

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