The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

by Donald D. Hoffman

we can prove that if our perceptions were shaped by natural selection then they almost surely evolved to hide reality. They just report fitness.

“all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In Time’s great periods shall return to nought.”

“natural selection is the only known natural process that pushes populations of organisms thermodynamically uphill into higher degrees of functional order, or even offsets the inevitable increase in disorder that would otherwise take place.”

Conscious realism claims that consciousness is the fundamental nature of objective reality.