THE BLIND SPOT - WHY SCIENCE CANNOT IGNORE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.

Its tempting to think that science gives us a Gods-eye view of reality. But we neglect the place of human experience at our peril. In The authors present science not as discovering an absolute reality but rather as a highly refined, constantly evolving form of human experience. They urge practitioners to reframe how science works for the sake of our future in the face of the planetary climate crisis and increasing science denialism.

Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, humanity has looked to science to tell us who we are, where we come from, and where were going, but weve gotten stuck thinking we can know the universe from outside our position in it. When we try to understand reality only through external physical things imagined from this outside position, we lose sight of the necessity of experience. This is the Blind Spot, which the authors show lies behind our scientific conundrums about time and the origin of the universe, quantum physics, life, AI and the mind, consciousness, and Earth as a planetary system. The authors propose an alternative vision: scientific knowledge is a self-correcting narrative made from the world and our experience of it evolving together. To finally see the Blind Spot is to awaken from a delusion of absolute knowledge and to see how reality and experience intertwine. Lire la suite Fermer