“Hoffman argues that conscious beings have not evolved to perceive the world as it actually is but have evolved to perceive the world in a way that maximizes survival. Borrowing images from his mathematical model of consciousness, Hoffman has us try to visualize our mind as it operates through myriad parallel program subroutines that take in and process sensory data, organize it, filter it, and generate a display that is appropriate for the experiencer, that subject or entity who observes the display. Hoffman frequently uses a metaphor: that we experience the mind as a computer desktop display. Our experiencing consciousness is separate from this display, and it is not the same as the mind. The objects that we perceive in time and space are filtered, simplified, and edited before being combined and projected out onto our “inner display.”