Document (#44375)

Author

Hoffman, D.D.
Singh, M.

Title

Perception, evolution, and the explanatory scope of scientific theories

Source

Journal of consciousness studies. 31(2024) no.9-10, S.29-41

Year

2024

Abstract

According to the interface theory of perception, our perceptual systems have evolved to provide a species-specific interface to guide adaptive behaviour, and not to provide veridical representations of an observer-independent world. Results of simulations of evolutionary resource games, genetic algorithms, and multiple mathematical theorems have supported and fleshed out this claim in various ways. They indicate that the probability is zero that any perceptual system has been shaped by natural selection to represent the true structure of an observer-independent world. Bagwell (2023) thinks that this argument is self-defeating because it implies that organisms, resources, genes, etc. that are essential constituents of Darwin's theory do not provide an insight into the nature of observerindependent reality. Bagwell's argument relies on a false premise, however - namely, that the mathematical formulation of a scientific theory cannot dethrone its fundamental concepts. More broadly, his argument involves a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of scientific theories - of their explanatory scope and their necessary limits.

Content

Vgl.: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2024/00000031/f0020009/art00003. https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.31.9.029.

Footnote

Volltext unter: Hoffman-Singh_Perception-Evolution-Scientific-theories.pdf.

Field

Kognitionswissenschaft

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