Science is about getting to the source of physical phenomena, pushing past the information to arrive at understanding. Neuroscience specifically tries to understand how the brain gets past information… to meaning, which is what Dale Purves and I previously called the “empirical significance” of information. This is what the brain does, and this is why humans have survived and flourished. Our species has been so successful not in spite of our inability to see reality but because of it. We see our past ecology’s interpretation, and this helps our brain respond in a way that is behaviorally
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