Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer – review | Books | The Guardian

Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer – review | Books | The Guardian

Scientific accounts of the world offer us a user’s manual – a description of how we interact with the world. They say nothing whatsoever about the way the world really works – what vision scientist Donald Hoffman in 1998 dubbed “the relational realm”: “We might hope that the theories of science will converge to a true theory of the relational realm. This is the hope of scientific realism. But it’s a hope as yet unrealised, and a hope that cannot be proved true.”

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