The world’s smartest scientists are saying it’s actually not. Imagine a pilot flying an airplane at night in bad weather. He can’t peek into the world outside of his plane… …all he has are the instruments on his dashboard.

Indicators of speed, air pressure, all kinds of dials that tell him about a world he cannot directly see. They’re very reliable and provide the pilot with what he needs to maneuver safely through his environment. Well, of course not.

Just because the menu in a restaurant can give you accurate information about the food, it isn’t food. The menu is not the meal. It seems like you couldn’t possibly confuse the two. And yet this is exactly what human beings do all the time…

…by looking upon our world as fundamentally material. We deal with matter and therefore assume that it is reality. But matter is only our dashboard, it is the interface we use to interact with reality. All we have are these ‘indicators’ to touch, smell, and feel, so our intuition tells us those indicators are all there is.

In this sense, the way humans deal with matter is like pilots flying by instruments… …without a clear-glass windshield. We can never see the actual reality ‘outside.’ Although many scientists are trying. Like this team of neuroscientists from the Institute of Neurology of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in London.

They discovered that organisms must represent their environment in an encoded manner to survive. Every species, including human beings, has their own set… …of dials and indicators: the forms and colours we see… …the sounds we hear, the flavours we taste.

What we see is an evolutionary ‘best guess’ constructed by our biology. It paints a nice picture. But a picture isn’t reality. This is the startling conclusion arrived at by a
team at the University of California. Through analysis and experimentation they’ve shown that our senses
are evolutionarily built to construct a useful...

...but untrue picture of reality. One that suits our survival. As Prof. Donald Hoffman likes to say: It may all sound very complex, because… well, it is! But it all comes down to the most important question of all: What is reality?

If it stands to be quite different from the colors,
shapes, sounds and textures that we call ‘matter’... ...then what is it? When we get down to the essence, what do we see and what do we get?

Why Our Reality Is Not What It Seems...

Essentia Foundation

과학자들은 악천후 속에서 계기판에만 의존하는 조종사처럼 현실에 대한 우리의 인식은 제한적이라고 주장합니다.

계기판은 필요한 정보를 제공하지만 비행기 밖의 완전한 현실을 나타내지는 않습니다.

이는 인간이 물질을 현실로 인식하는 방식과 비교되는데, 물질은 상호작용을 위한 인터페이스일 뿐입니다.

신경과학자들은 유기체가 생존을 위해 색과 소리와 같은 '다이얼과 표시기'를 사용하여 환경을 부호화한다는 사실을 발견했습니다.

우리의 지각은 진화적으로 '최선의 추측'이며, 현실 그 자체가 아니라 구성된 그림입니다.

캘리포니아 대학교의 연구에 따르면 우리의 감각은 생존을 위해 유용하지만 사실과 다른 현실을 만들어냅니다.

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