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There is an idea that the evolution selects for fitness, not reality https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality/ https://
by d0mine 10y ago
There is an idea that the evolution selects for fitness, not reality https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-arg... (some things in the article are dubious but fitness!=reality might be true).
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoWell, one could argue (and post-modernists have been doing this for a long time) that "reality" as such does not even exist, and we're all fitting narratives onto our environment anyway.
- d0mine 10y agoThe claim in the article is scientific: it can be proved wrong (and thus it has nothing to do with post-modernists). The idea is simple: the organism that sees only what its needs (fitness criteria) can reproduce more successfully than an organism that sees more complete picture (reality) and has to spend energy to process it. It is not about metaphysics. It is about a math model and whether it is confirmed by observations of actual organisms on the Earth.