So you start treating the desktop as reality, yet it’s only an interface …. Trying to understand the underlying reality would slow you down dramatically. In contrast to microelectronics, the desktop is a convenient way of interacting with your computer. For that, you need to enter a different world, composed on microcircuits and tiny movements of electrons. But the icons are not what is really happening in your computer. If you wanted, you could formulate an ontology and epistemology, or laws explaining the behaviour of icons, images and the like. You see various icons that you can modify, move around, stick into folders and delete. Home › Books and Book Reviews › Do We See Icons or Reality? A Review of Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality, Brian Martinĭo We See Icons or Reality? A Review of Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality, Brian Martin
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