Evolution for Beginners

[Baruch]

Yep ... predators increase, prey decrease, predators decrease, prey increase ... meanwhile seasonal weather, long term weather changes, and slow mutation/adaptation shift the game.  Velociraptors back then, humans today ... same biological game, but with better technology.

[Unbeliever]

Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.

[Baruch]

Our perception can be primarily based on objective sensation data, or not.  Then there is subjective sensation data (not reproducible external data).  Then there is subjective psychological wanking ;-)  Can anyone guess which humans prefer?  Ultimately one hits bottom individually and socially, in skid-row.