Jane Ogrady

Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality is hard to get your head around

‘Perception is not about truth,’ he says, ‘it’s about having kids.’ Help!

issue 12 October 2019
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  • The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

    Donald D. Hoffman

    Allen Lane, pp. 245, £20

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