physics
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Why can’t we perceive cells? Or atoms?
I was asked the following question on Quora: Why can’t we see, touch, hear and smell on a cellular level? And what happens if we can? Here’s what I wrote: Essentially, we perceive the visible world in the way that we do because of our overall size, the shape of our eyes, and the sizes…
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“Conscious realism”: a new way to think about reality (or the lack thereof?)
Interesting interview in the Atlantic with cognitive scientist Donald D. Hoffman: The Case Against Reality “I call it conscious realism: Objective reality is just conscious agents, just points of view. Interestingly, I can take two conscious agents and have them interact, and the mathematical structure of that interaction also satisfies the definition of a conscious…