American Alchemy
American Alchemy
socialJun 4𝕏
Scientist says objects don't exist when you're not looking at them!
Scientist says objects don't exist when you're not looking at them! Donald Hoffman, cognitive scientist at UC Irvine, says there is only your experience of the an object, generated the moment you perceive it, gone the moment you look away. An object two people see are two separate events. We coordinate so seamlessly that we assume there's one shared object but there isn't. Where it gets stranger is that Hoffman says the monad, the ultimate consciousness underlying all observers, would perceiv...
