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    PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality

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    PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality

    FromThe Next Big Idea

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    PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality

    FromThe Next Big Idea

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    Length:
    45 minutes
    Released:
    Nov 26, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    What you see is what you get, right? Nope. In his mind-bending new book, "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes," Don Hoffman argues that what we see, smell, touch, and taste are illusions. Reality, he says, is just an interface, like a computer desktop, built by our brains to conceal complexity. Hoffman offers us the red pill and invites us into "The Matrix" — the surreal, flickering, unreliable "real" world.
    Released:
    Nov 26, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join our host, Rufus Griscom — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.