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I think our senses are just imprecise and it undermines all our thoughts and perceptions of the universe when things approach limits.

• dredmorbius 3y ago
  Our senses are evolved to maximise our fitness function within our immediate reality. There's a view that our senses don't reflect truth so much as evolutionary fitness, which involves both compromises and biases.[1] Our evolutionary environment for the most part has excluded relativistic effects. Though that raises the interesting question of what sense perceptions of an organism evolving under such circumstances might be. ________________________________ Notes: 1. Donald Hoffman is the principle proponent of this that I'm aware of: <https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...>. I'm not entirely sold on the hard-line version of his argument; it seems to me that there's a general tendency for adherence to truth to be more parsimonious than outright fabulation, in which the nonessential inaccuracies of the sensing system incur additional costs.