It seems to me that civilizations have an emergent intellect that operates and updates on a larger timescale than individual generations, and is usually not comprehended and rarely apprehended by even the most educated members of its polis.
As far as I understand it, you could say that the brain represents the world using 50 maps with about a megapixel resolution each, and complex relationships between the pixels. That gives intricate models, but they are very much unlike the real universe.
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Yeah, the models we construct are diverse, and are based on all the previous sensory data our brain has collected. But I don't see any reason to think that the original data is bad/unrealistic. But I can see what he and you are talking about. The map is not the territory.
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The data is entirely unrealistic. The difference between the evolution of the state vector of the universe and the sparse, noisy excitations your sensory nerves register is vast.
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A recurrent theme is that the brain tends to discover low dimensional geometries. However, there is no geometry in the actual universe. No true circles, waves, real numbers.
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