Our senses are evolved to maximise our fitness function within our immediate reality. There's a view that our senses don't reflect truth so much as evolutionary fitness, which involves both compromises and biases.[1]
Our evolutionary environment for the most part has excluded relativistic effects.
Though that raises the interesting question of what sense perceptions of an organism evolving under such circumstances might be.
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Notes:
1. Donald Hoffman is the principle proponent of this that I'm aware of: <https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...>. I'm not entirely sold on the hard-line version of his argument; it seems to me that there's a general tendency for adherence to truth to be more parsimonious than outright fabulation, in which the nonessential inaccuracies of the sensing system incur additional costs.
Our evolutionary environment for the most part has excluded relativistic effects.
Though that raises the interesting question of what sense perceptions of an organism evolving under such circumstances might be.
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Notes:
1. Donald Hoffman is the principle proponent of this that I'm aware of: <https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...>. I'm not entirely sold on the hard-line version of his argument; it seems to me that there's a general tendency for adherence to truth to be more parsimonious than outright fabulation, in which the nonessential inaccuracies of the sensing system incur additional costs.