A Short History of Misunderstanding Reality - Softcover

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Ever get the feeling that reality is just… messing with you?

You’re not wrong. For most of history, humans have been absolutely, hilariously certain about how the world works. The sky was a solid dome. Time ticked the same for everyone. Your senses were honest brokers. You had a single, coherent self, piloting your body with free will through a logical, local, and reasonably polite universe.

Turns out, almost every one of those comforting truths is a lie your brain told you to get through the day without having a cosmic panic attack.

This book is the story of our greatest humiliations, and our greatest triumphs. From the flat Earth to quantum spookiness, from the illusion of color to the mirage of the present moment, we’ll explore how everything we thought was obvious turned out to be spectacularly wrong. And why that’s the best news ever.

Prepare to have your intuition gently (and sometimes not-so-gently) unpicked. A Short History of Misunderstanding Reality is a warmly amusing, mind-bending tour through the cracks in reality, guided by a simple, liberating idea: being wrong isn’t a bug in human thought. It’s the main feature. And the next big thing we’re wrong about is waiting just around the corner.

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