Next: Donald Hoffman’s Case against reality

This is an excellent book, it's basic premise is Kantian transcendental idealism, the idea of the world, according to Kant is that there is an objective reality, but the mind constructs its vision & ideas in pre-configured ways, to enable fitness

This leads to Hoffman's theory of Fitness Beats Truth(FBT), which is an extension of Steven Pinker's idea that we evolve for fitness, not for truth

I also like the analogy he used in Interface Theory of Perception (ITP), where he argues that our perception is more like

Icons on a computer, that hides the complexity of the program we are running & gives us fitness point by performing some actions, making sure we don't put icons in the recycle bin, same way evolution shapes us for surve enough for reproduction(adaptive behavior), not for truth

The same way we can't perceive 96% of what we called dark matter, and how our perception is inherently flawed and there are some kinds of trade-offs for the time taken to solve the survival-reproduction problem

He puts forward his own mathematical theory of conscious realism

Which he claims can help explain how we develop consciousness, & perhaps explains why space-time is doomed for measuring objective reality

I like some quotes and research in the book like this part

"our logical reasoning works best when we argue with others"

I never knew research can prove this, lol

1 thing I missed, the 1st time I've seen consciousness represented with an equation

conscious agent (C), is a 7 tuple

C = (X, G, W, P, D, A, T) where X, G, & W are measurable spaces

P: W × X → X, D: X × G → G, & A: G × W → W are Markovian kernels

T is a totally ordered set

Where several conscious agents come together to perform a cognitive task C1, C2, C3... Cn

Who were several agents comes around to be just one cognitive agent

Just like the theory of everything, this is an excellent book recommendation too!

Thanks, @Darren_Everitt!

I'm going to be taking your book recommendations extra seriously moving forward