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Question reality!

The Universe is beyond our understanding, so we build a "middle world" of vernacular reality that just works, according to Richard Dawkins, speaking about "Meme Power" at TED Global. (I think a lot of us get this; my question is how we stretch?) [Link]

Our brains had evolved to help us survive within the scale and orders of magnitude within which we exist, said Professor Dawkins.

We think that rocks and crystals are solid when in fact they were made up mostly of spaces in between atoms, he argued.

This, he said, was just the way our brains thought about things in order to help us navigate our "middle sized" world - the medium scale environment - a world in which we cannot see individual atoms.

Because we exist in such a limited section of the universe, and given its enormous scale, we cannot expect to be the only organisms within it, Professor Dawkins believes.

jon posted this at 9:01 AM
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