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How We Perceive Reality
28:57 - 35:34 (06:36)
In this podcast episode, the speaker questions whether we can truly comprehend things that are not knowable to us through our senses, even with complex instruments. He also discusses how our perceptual systems interact with constructs to perceive reality.
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This podcast discusses the question of whether it is possible to fully comprehend something that is not within our senses, and the theory of everything.
28:57 - 32:12 (03:14)
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This podcast discusses the question of whether it is possible to fully comprehend something that is not within our senses, and the theory of everything.
ChapterHow We Perceive Reality
Episode#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Our brains and perceptual systems create a construct of the world around us, which becomes the basis for our interaction with it.
32:13 - 35:34 (03:20)
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Our brains and perceptual systems create a construct of the world around us, which becomes the basis for our interaction with it. However, this construct is limited by our nervous system and can never truly represent the world as it is, meaning we are always interacting with a version of reality that may differ significantly from the reality experienced by other beings.