On the one hand, neuroscientists struggle to understand how a first-person reality can exist, and at the same time, quantum physicists wonder how anything other than first-person reality can exist.
All paths converge in the observer.
He affirms without hesitation that “what our perception presents us is not reality.” Hoffman is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. The last 30 years of his career have been dedicated to the study of perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory, and the brain. With his, he tries to develop “a mathematical model of the observer, trying to reach the reality behind the illusion.”
To explain this, he uses a contemporary metaphor, the computer desktop interface: “Suppose there is a blue rectangular icon in the lower right corner of your computer desktop. Does that mean that the file itself is blue and rectangular and lives in the bottom right corner of your computer? Of course not. That it is blue and rectangular and that it is in the lower right corner of the screen are the only categories we have available to refer to it and yet none of them is the file itself. that rectangular blue icon is the reality we see and guides our behavior, and hides a complex reality we don’t need to know. “It has been shaping the perceptions that have allowed us to survive and have guided adaptive behaviors.” And this implies that There are many things that are hidden from us because we don’t need to know. And that is what we call reality, whatever it is. “If we stopped to find out, the tiger would have already eaten us.”
In this sense, it can be said that we have perceptions that keep us alive. So “if I see something that looks like a snake to me, I don’t grab it. The snake I see is a description created by my sensory system to inform me of the consequences of my actions. But Taking a perception seriously is different from taking it literally.
Traditional physics says that we can measure objects and obtain the same results under the same study conditions. The says that the final conclusions are directly related to the observer.
Hoffman argues that “experiences are the true currency of the kingdom. The experiences of everyday life – my actual feeling of a headache, my actual taste of chocolate – which is actually the ultimate nature of reality.”
In one, the companion knows that the client has experienced the perception of a situation as real and that certainty has provoked a series of emotions that are related to past experiences of his own life and of his ancestors. During the accompaniment, the client is guided to achieve a change of perception and reach the one that allows them to transcend that information.
In the book The art of , Enric Corbera says: ”We know that we live in an illusion called space/time, an illusion that makes us believe that everything that happens to us has nothing to do with us. It makes us believe that there are events out there that we should not try to control. AND, there is nothing to control, except paying attention to the feelings that surround each situation that we experience. This is of paramount importance, as Right now you are the creator of your realitywhich we usually call, in our incomprehension, destiny”.
“Experiences are the true currency of the kingdom. The experiences of everyday life – my actual feeling of a headache, my actual taste of chocolate – which is actually the ultimate nature of reality.”
Donald D. Hoffman.
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