We discarded a flat earth and a geocentric universe. We realized that we had misread our perceptions, and we corrected our errors. It wasn’t easy. In the process, mundane intuitions and Church doctrines were shattered. But these corrections were mere warm-ups. Now we must jettison spacetime itself, and everything in it. What kind of creatures are we? According to evolution, not creatures that see reality as it is. And that profoundly affects how we think about the relation between brains and consciousness. If space and time exist only in our perceptions, then how can anything within space and
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