Quote Originally Posted by icefractal View Post
Re: Perception of objective reality:
Anyone who thinks that they are or can be a perfectly rational actor, or that they are consciously aware of everything that influences their thoughts/memories/perceptions, needs to read up a bit more on neuroscience. This has been pretty well studied, although of course everyone likes to think they're the one exception.

Actually, the degree to which the conscious mind is merely one part of the process, and retroactively justifies decisions made by the subconscious, is a fascinating topic, but a bit of a tangent for this thread.
Yeah... even if it's one of those things that gets oversold and sensationalized in TED Talks and the like.

I'm not arguing that humans are perfectly rational or objective, just against the blinked ivory tower notion that we're each living in our own little subjective irrational prison with no hope of parsing objetive reality, and that our senses are so disconnected from reality that we might as well be in a total delusion.