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Can We Trust Our Senses to Perceive Reality?
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The probability is zero that natural selection would shape any sensory system of the organism to reveal any true properties of objective reality, according to cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman. Fitness payoffs of senses are not homomorphic to structures in reality, and thus, perceptions cannot be homomorphic to reality's structures.

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