Why do physicists and mathematicians like Roger Penrose study neuroscience (primarily the occipital lobe and the claustrum) to understand what reality is REALLY like?
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I’m not really sure I understand your question completely. But I guess one of the problems with knowing what reality really is, is that whatever we think we see, hear, feel, taste isn’t actually reality. It is the signals from the world first being taken up by our senses (which already filters out a lot) and then processed by our brain which then finally presents us with a picture of what the brain wants us to know.
And for example for seeing: the brain doesn’t just copy light intensities pixel by pixel, like a computer or a camera would. But it heavily edits it, because for us to function best some information is more important than the rest.
This of course is also really relevant for artificial intelligence, because computers just ‘think’ and process things fundamentally different than the human brain does.
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