Is the world too bizarre for humans to understand? The BBC reports that Professor Richard Dawkins opened up a the TEDGlobal conference by explaining that our world may be "too queer" to understand and the each generation creates its own reality to deal with the new information. He also said that quantum physics is beyond most human understanding.
Professor Dawkins' opening talk, in a session called Meme Power, explored the ways in which humans invent their own realities to make sense of the infinitely complex worlds they are in; worlds made more complex by ideas such as quantum physics which is beyond most human understanding.
"Are there things about the Universe that will be forever beyond our grasp, in principle, ungraspable in any mind, however superior?" he asked.
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"Successive generations have come to terms with the increasing queerness of the Universe."
Each species, in fact, has a different "reality". They work with different "software" to make them feel comfortable, he suggested.
Because different species live in different models of the world, there was a discomfiting variety of real worlds, he suggested.
