Appearance Vs Reality Research Paper

Improved Essays
What is reality?
Is there a connection to your brain and the world around you?
Is it really what you think it is?

Current knowledge about our bodies state that the brain sees the world by using millions of stimuli around us to perceive the feelings of cold, soft, bright, and countless others.

Take a look at this sunset, you see the sunset in front of you but when you leave the area. Was there really a sunset at the time period.
Your mind says yes since you recall being there but is there something behind this.
Let's break this down…
You see the sun lying on the horizon,
You see water crashing against the shore,
And you see vegetation filled mountains to the left of you.
Together all of this gives you the image of the sunset.

Does our brain
…show more content…
We aren't like this no reason.
Evolution carved Us out like this
For our brains to manipulate our senses to have an advantage over other beings.
But what is wrong with seeing reality as it is
Why does our brain have to manipulate our surroundings.

A scientist by the name Donald Hoffman ran thousands of computer simulations where there were three different types of organisms. One Saw all of reality, the other saw some of reality, and the final category only aimed for fitness.

As he repeatedly ran the simulation over and over again, he noticed a pattern. Only the organisms who targeted fitness were surviving.

If we analyze the results, We can clearly see that evolution and natural selection are doing their work. They are removing the organisms that are not adequate for their environment and keeping the organisms that are.

Evolution has a major impact on this data and it turns out and it makes a lot of sense.

On the southern side of the planet lies the Amazon Forest. In the forest lives the capuchin monkey which feeds on leaves. IT uses its appendix to aid in digesting the leaves into a nutritious

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    SCI203 Phase 2 Lab Essay

    • 304 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Name: Amanda Kranning Date: October 17, 2015 Instructor’s Name: Debora Ladner Assignment: SCI203 Phase 2 Lab Report TITLE: Speciation • Purpose o…

    • 304 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Essay On Crescens Ignis

    • 1134 Words
    • 5 Pages

    PBL #1: Evolve a Primate! Species Name: Crescens ignis Common Name: Fire Crescent Monkey Geographic Distribution: Crescens ignis are native to regions in the heart of the Amazon’s tropical rainforests. They live in highly arboreal where there are seasonal changes in rainfall and temperatures. According to Fragaszy (1950), with such a highly arboreal area these monkeys are able to “use all levels from the canopy to the understory, going to the ground to drink, forage or travel” (p. 1).…

    • 1134 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Justin Dubler August 31, 2015 Mrs. Werle Period #1-2 AP Biology Summer Assignment Survival of the Sickest Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unit of life. Passage 1: “Our genetic makeup has been adapting in response to where we live and what the weather’s like. The food we eat has evolved to cope with the organisms that eat it, and we’ve evolved to cope with that. We’ve looked at the way we’ve evolved to resist or manage the threat posed by specific infectious diseases, like malaria… At the end of the day, every living thing–bacteria, protozoa, lions, tigers, bears, and your baby brother–shares two hardwired imperatives: Survive.…

    • 865 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases; we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish. In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin clears up the questions previously asked.…

    • 1447 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Howler monkeys in Nicaragua need help now. Following smaller howler monkey events in Ecuador and Panama, there have been 75 mysterious deaths in the small Central American country (70 of them since mid-January). Researchers from the University of Michigan are trying to discover why, and they have four leading hypotheses: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160225101603.htm 1. Drought or another environmental stressor creating less access to food or water 2. Poisonous plants that the monkeys are consuming 3.…

    • 195 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ALAA ALMAZROU Christian Petersen 9 OCT 2015 Forces of Evolution There is a great series were started since nearly 2,300 years ago. Biological populations change off the characteristics that are inherited from one population to another. The process through which these changes occur in human and animals is referred to as evolution.…

    • 964 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Hawaii Chiefdom

    • 961 Words
    • 4 Pages

    In this Anthropology class, most if not all of the societies that we look at and investigate have some form of evidence that shows the emergence of social complexity and complex structure like states or civilizations. The article of Norman Yoffee states, “All human societies develop along a universal "evolutionary" trajectory from small and egalitarian to large and socially complex”. I believe that this statement is inaccurate, all societies that have come to existence have not all developed on a universal trajectory (small to large). I believe that there are many different evolutionary possibilities in societies. In Norman Yoffee’s article, page 72 figure 6.6 shows a more accurate trajectory of evolution in social complexity where there…

    • 961 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the article Appearances Are Destructive by. Mark Mathabane the author claims that public school children are more familiar to Nike, Calvin Klein, Adidas, Reebok, and Gucci than Zora Neale Hurston, Shakespeare, and Faulkner. Mathabane states that students are more focused on what’s on their bodies then what’s in their minds. According to the author school children are more focused on what they are wearing than in their minds. I agree with the author on how school children are more focused on what they are wearing than in their minds, because such as, in my years of high school.…

    • 488 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Charles Lyell And Darwin

    • 583 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 2 Works Cited

    Darwin derived the concept of the struggle for existence in part from Malthus's essay. He believed that creatures less fit for their environment would tend to die off. This would be called the struggle for existence. Some people thought that nature was a balanced system, but Darwin saw it as a mechanism.…

    • 583 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 2 Works Cited
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The purpose of this lab is to help understand how and why animals adapt to their environment. If a specie can adapt well to the environment they will have success in surviving and reproducing. An adaption is any inherited trait that increases the ability of the living things to survive and reproduce. Generation after generation the traits that are heritable become more common in a population. Evolution by natural selection takes place over many generations.…

    • 1036 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When we look at living individuals today, there are at least a million differences amongst them, and yet there are multiple similarities. No living individual is the same as they were a year ago. It is known that many significant individuals have looked for answers of possibly why this has occurred, and is still occurring. Despite the various approaches from multiple fields of study, there has always been a connection between the studies conducted; evolution. From physical attributes to one’s genome, to similar homologous and analogous structures to fossil records, all suggest that things have evolved since the beginning of life.…

    • 1923 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Into the Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution is a novel by Sean B. Carroll built around nine different stories of scientific discoveries and how they all contributed to our current knowledge of the evolution of species. As one can infer from the title, the main biological concept dealt with is evolution. To explain and provide support for the theory, Carroll discussed two more concepts: natural selection and genetic mutations. Every one of the nine stories included in the book is an example of how the author addresses evolution.…

    • 1263 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    Natural Selection Lab

    • 1562 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The English Peppered Moth and Natural Selection Lab By: Justin Pascual Partners: Nathan Magbitang, Rudy Keyes-Krysakowski, and Glenn Tipold Teacher: Ms. Coopman Date Performed: November 16, 2015 The English Peppered Moth and Natural Selection Lab Purpose The purpose of this lab is to determine how variation in a population can favour survival of a certain trait over multiple generations. Hypothesis It is believed that if there are more speckled moths remaining in the tray at the end of the experiment, it will represent the fact that the conditions of the surrounding environment have favoured their colour.…

    • 1562 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Contrast Lens” Have you ever wondered how, exactly, you measure changes in yourself and the people around you. By comparison of course, for without darkness, how can one measure the light. It is a very common practice, in fictional literature, for authors to use static characters in order to expose change in the protagonist. For example, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde uses the characters of Lord Henry Wotton and Basil Hallward to measure Dorian’s descent into Henry’s hedonistic ways. When we meet Dorian he is pure and innocent.…

    • 1763 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Name: Desire Salazar Date: 12/15/17 Period: Pre-AP Biology 5th Title: Population Genetics and Evolution Problem: How does the Hardy-Weinberg law provide evidence of evolution? Background Information: The lab will determine how the Hardy-Weinberg law provides evidence of evolution in a population. A population is “a group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time”…

    • 1082 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays

Related Topics