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The cognitive .....(SCIENCE) Donald Hoffman uses evolutionary game theory to show that ........
scientist
We tend to assume that our perceptions — sights, sounds, textures and tastes — are an accurate .....(PORTRAY) of the real world.
portrayal
Sure, when we stop and think about it — or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion — we realise with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world (DIRECT),
directly
Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a .....(REASONABLE) decent one.
reasonably
His conclusion is a .....(DRAMA) one – the world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality.
dramatic
It maximises evolutionary ..... (FIT) by driving truth to .....(EXTINCT)
fitness, extinction
Getting at questions about the nature of reality and .....(ENTANGLE) the observer from the observed is an endeavor that straddles the boundaries of neuroscience and fundamental physics.
disentangling
On one side, you’ll find .....(RESEARCH) scratching their chins raw trying to understand how a.......
researchers
This is the ..... (APT) named ‘hard problem’
aptly
whether we are conscious humans or inanimate .....(MEASURE) devices.
measuring
that if we assume that the particles that make up ordinary objects have an objective, observer-independent........ (EXIST), we get the wrong answers.
existence
that view can no longer be.......(HOLD)
upheld
And that’s where you can find Hoffman — straddling the boundaries, attempting a .....(MATHEMATICS) model of the observer,
mathematical
There are benign uses of data mining, .....but, however, although , nevertheless ...... for most of us the bigger issue is ........
however
however for most of us the bigger issue is ....security, insurance, defense, protection........from corporate and state snooping..
security
Nobody is thrilled about social media applications like Facebook doing the same..........yet, although, however, but......... many of us indulge anyway
but
