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“I’m surprised that people think reality is how we perceive it”

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Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias expresses his opinion clearly. This time it didn't have to be different, and so, rigorously and rigorously, he answered the questions. Yes, he wanted to make it clear that he is no longer a researcher, since a few years ago he left the world of research. Since then he has worked in other works without losing his investigative sense. What has surprised, altered or fascinated you the most since you started working?

Maybe my career is a bit odd, because I was researching until 1997-1998 and then I left it forever. I spent about 15 years researching and since I started I had a very normal tour, the truth. So what worried me the most was that the people of my environment do not understand that what we do is facing the international arena. At that time, this component of our activity was not admitted, which has been an achievement of time. But as for scientific activity, I would say that things came out as they had to go out, that is, sometimes well and sometimes badly. But you learn from everything.

With the current perspective, I think people in science don't think too much of what they do. That is, I am surprised that people think that reality is how we perceive it. Scientists also think that, and it's absurd, because we should be clear that reality is one thing and how we perceive it another. Beware, I do not say that there is no objective reality, if there is an objective reality, but what we perceive is an interpretation of it. And many people don't realize it. I won't say it alters me, but it surprises me.

I once explained to my mother that colors do not exist, that we create them in our brain. Of course, I could not understand it, the mother only has basic studies and it is normal that they do not understand it. But it is not normal for a researcher not to see and accept that reality is not what we perceive.

What would you like to witness the revolution or the discovery in your career?

I would like two things. One is finding effective therapies against all cancers. And it is that, at least in our world, cancers are one of the most deadly evils, and now I think they are making great advances in immunotherapy, so see if from there comes a small revolution or... I don't know if it will come from there or when, because then too many promises are made that are not fulfilled. But that is one of my desires.

The other has nothing to do with the results of science, but with the situation of science, and I would like Euskal Herria to be a world leader in science, not in expenditure, but in results, in production. That, unfortunately, I will not see it, I think I will see it more easily.