Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£0.00 for first 30 days
The Case Against Reality
Buy Now for £4.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth?
Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.
Ever since Homo sapiens has walked the earth, natural selection has favored perception that hides the truth and guides us toward useful action, shaping our senses to keep us alive and reproducing. We observe a speeding car and do not walk in front of it; we see mold growing on bread and do not eat it. These impressions, though, are not objective reality. Just like a file icon on a desktop screen is a useful symbol rather than a genuine representation of what a computer file looks like, the objects we see every day are merely icons, allowing us to navigate the world safely and with ease.
The real-world implications for this discovery are huge. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Listeners also enjoyed...
What listeners say about The Case Against Reality
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Ritesh Sonawala
- 19-02-20
Awesome read!
this is an truly awesome read. recommended to anyone who would at some point like to reconcile our conscious experience with our scientific understanding. it's also a very daring book that questions the idea of SpaceTime and leaves us pondering what a conscious agent is really!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Sil & Dennis
- 17-12-21
Underwhelming
Certainly introduces some interesting concepts, but not as groundbreaking as it deems to be. Maybe this book tries a bit to much by combining to many disciplines, but the resulting theory feels patchy. The concepts introduced are also repeated over and over with endless examples, not introducing any new insides. Quit halfway through the book
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- mauricecronin100
- 06-05-21
Mind blowing
I really liked this book. It ties in with my beliefs. Amazing that a confluence of science and spirituality may one day be possible.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- CM
- 28-10-22
Metaphysics isn't real....
Dude meta physics isn't real - it's not testable or falsifiable - and therefore it is not science. You have some interesting ideas - but then so does the author of batman. I did like the explanation of icons to represent the physical world... but this is not new thinking.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- LC
- 23-05-20
Repetitive and contradictory
The subject of this book is something I find very interesting, but I found this book to be extremely repetitive, giving endless examples and going over the same ground repeatedly without moving forward. I also found it to be contradictory in some fundamental ways, at least in the way it was described.
Due to the repetition it missed out dealing with some important questions and consequences.
However, right at the end of the book it suddenly moved on from the repetition and started taking things forward, but unfortunately the book then ended without taking it very far.
So overall I found I didn’t get anything useful or new except for the very last part of the book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Bruce R. Fenton
- 31-03-20
Wakes you up
Must read/listen book. Evolution has deluded us and left us blind to the broader spectrum of reality.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Invisfx
- 27-01-20
missing the PDF
the book is good but the PDF is missing which is a shame because there are optical ill-using being described which I cannot follow along with. please look into this
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 11-03-21
Fascinating
A compelling case against how we've all been taught to see the world. Enough real world examples to constantly keep interest. Would highly recommend to all.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Addison C.
- 08-12-23
Will change how you view your very existence
Amazing audio book. You need the pdf that accompanies the book. Just go to your library section on audible and next to the book you can choose to open the pdf. It's essential to download it as it's referenced frequently. The ideas presented are revolutionary but backed up by science. The fact that the Universe is pixelated really threw me, to be honest. The account is extremely counterintuitive but is backed up again and agin by mathematics and modern physics. In a way, it's a deeply disturbing theory but one that gives you hope that there's more to our existence than this brief spell on Earth.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 08-06-21
pretty bizzare
very interesting, great book! would recommend if your into the latest take on age old questions
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful