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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Futureproof Gold: Understanding Reality

What colour is that Orange? I’ll give you a tip. The answer is in the question. But is the Orange still orange if I’m not looking at it? Is my perception of orange the same as your perception of Orange? Does it feel, taste, smell the same for me as it does for you? Almost certainly not. So what then am I experiencing when I encounter an orange or indeed any aspect of reality?  Donald Hoffman is a Cognitive Scientist and author of Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See, and he joined Jonathan to talk about how we perceive reality... First aired: 05/01/2019