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.
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Replying to @Plinz
Do you if you haven‘t already, Don Hoffman has an interesting model about conciousness. Eg listen to episode 26 of the „After on“ podcast or read his papers, fascinating mind bend. ;-)
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Thanks for the recommendation. I'd never seen this guy before. I'm really curious about his theory that evolution weeds out individuals who "see reality accurately". That seems so strange. Though clearly we each have our own unique experience of reality, which is very real.
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Replying to @thewiseturtle @JMoVS
His thought is not that evolution weeds out those that see the universe correctly, but that it did not equip us with ways to do so. For instance, there is no color or sound in the universe; both are merely aspects of the models our brain comes up with.
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What would it mean for something to see reality "as it is" then? I mean, obviously we need to use models and metaphor to compare X to Y, so there has to be interpretation. But the brain takes it all in as accurately as possible.
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Replying to @thewiseturtle @JMoVS
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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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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