Getting Reality Wrong

Published: June 16, 2017, 11:30 p.m.

b"Phil and Stephen discuss why \\u201creality\\u201d is a trickier proposition than we think.\\n\\n\\xa0\\nA neuroscientist says your 'reality' could be entirely different from the person sitting next to you \\u2014 and you'll never know how much\\n\\n\\nThe broader point that Eagleman is working towards here is that everyone's reality is subjective. We're all trapped in our own brains but laughably confident that we're experiencing the world as it truly is.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\nA Theory of Reality as More Than the Sum of Its Parts\\n\\n\\nAgency doesn\\u2019t exist among the atoms, and so reductionism suggests agents don\\u2019t exist at all....Hoel\\u2019s theory, called \\u201ccausal emergence,\\u201d roundly rejects this reductionist assumption. \\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\nThe Impossible Mathematics of the Real World\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nNear-miss math provides exact representations of almost-right answers.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nOTHER GEEK\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nAudible Hack\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nOld-school geeking with ham radio\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nWT 314-623"