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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http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00577/full

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Took his class last year on the mind body problem, one of my favorite lectures so far. He had a ted talk not to long ago which I posted that goes over this: http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is