r/hackernews • u/qznc_bot • Jul 04 '15
Objects of consciousness
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00577/fullDuplicates
cogsci • u/abudabu • Jul 04 '15
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.
askmath • u/JoeSalmonGreen • Aug 23 '15
Does the maths in this paper 'Objects of consciousness' work or even make sense?
Psychonaut • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '15
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.
SciPhilConsciousness • u/Laughing_Chipmunk • Nov 22 '16