Donald D. Hoffman
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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
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2019
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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
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1998
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#178 - The Reality Illusion
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Birthplace of the American Cowboy
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Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception
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1989
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Geometric Representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Papers in Honor of Tarow Indow on His 70th Birthday
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2013
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Automotive Lighting and Human Vision
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2007
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“The tinkering of evolution can concoct perceptual interfaces with endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful; the vast majority of these, however, are to us most inconceivable. Evolution is not finished tinkering with the perceptual interfaces of Homo sapiens. The mutations that bless one in twenty-five with some form of synesthesia are surely part of the process, and some of these mutations might catch on; much of the tinkering centers on our perceptions of color. Evolution defies our silly stricture that our perceptions must be veridical. It freely explores endless forms of sensory interfaces, hitting now and then on novel ways to shepherd our endless foraging for fitness.”
― The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
― The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
“To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with
construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.”
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construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.”
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“There are as many cubes as there are observers constructing cubes. And when you look away, your cube ceases to be.”
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
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