Is our vision of reality correct? (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 16:12 (3314 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Michael Shermer thinks it is, and I agree with him:-http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-humans-evolve-to-see-things-as-they-reall...-David's comment: It is not often I agree with Shermer but he is right on. Unless our vision/brain apparatus gives us reality as it IS, we could not make the progress in knowledge we have made.-I also agree, and we have discussed this many times in a variety of contexts. We can never know the objective truth, and the nearest we can get to it is through general consensus, but scientific testing and technology provide us with plenty of evidence that at least some of our perceptions are accurate.