{"product_id":"the-blind-spot-isbn-9780262048804","title":"The Blind Spot","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is by far the best book I've read this year.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction, Harvard University; \u003ci\u003e#1 New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“(A) stimulating manifesto for changing the way we look at things.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s tempting to think that science gives us a God’s-eye view of reality. But we neglect the place of human experience at our peril. In \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Spot, \u003c\/i\u003eastrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecall for a revolutionary scientific worldview, where science includes—rather than ignores or tries not to see—humanity’s lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the dawn of the Enlightenment, humanity has looked to science to tell us who we are, where we come from, and where we’re going, but we’ve 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature’s self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.Contents\u003cbr\u003e An Introduction to the Blind Spot ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI How Did We Get Here? A Guide for the Perplexed \u003cbr\u003e1 The Surreptitious Substitution: Philosophical Origins of the\u003cbr\u003e Blind Spot 3\u003cbr\u003e 2 The Ascending Spiral of Abstraction: Scientific Origins of the\u003cbr\u003e Blind Spot 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII     Cosmos\u003cbr\u003e 3     Time 55\u003cbr\u003e 4     Matter 81\u003cbr\u003e 5     Cosmology 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII Life and Mind\u003cbr\u003e 6     Life 141\u003cbr\u003e 7     Cognition 163\u003cbr\u003e 8     Consciousness 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV The Planet\u003cbr\u003e 9     Earth 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword 251\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 257\u003cbr\u003e Notes 259\u003cbr\u003e Index 293“This is a very important book that has the potential to become a classic text . . . Being aware of the Blind Spot is a necessary step toward reinscribing human experience back into science’s core.”\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eScience\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This is by far the best book I've read this year.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction, Harvard University; \u003ci\u003e#1 New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“(A) stimulating manifesto for changing the way we look at things.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Blind Spot \u003c\/i\u003emakes a rich and complex philosophical argument, but it also has major practical implications, both for how we should do science and for how it should be presented to the public.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Breathtaking . . . The discussion is so clear, well-paced, and witty that I’d be tempted to describe it as a breezy read if that didn’t risk coming across as a slight. Nonscientists will appreciate sparklingly clear accounts of seemingly forbidding concepts . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e uses philosophical arguments to resolve scientific puzzles that threaten the integrity of science itself. We philosophers have long dreamed of finding a way to demonstrate the interdependence of the sciences and the humanities. Well, here it is.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“I recommend this book heartily. It puts its finger on the most fundamental philosophical questions and articulates a powerful, unified diagnosis of a remarkable cluster of current scientific problems. It challenges authority and orthodoxy in the best way. You may not initially agree with the authors, but once you see the Blind Spot, you cannot look away.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNature Physics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“An intriguing and important reflection on the complexity of the role that we ourselves play within the scientific world picture.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Carlo Rovelli, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Order of Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeven Brief Lessons on Physics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Can we aspire for knowledge more comprehensive and truer than our current scientific one? Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson’s brilliant answer is yes: one that celebrates its accomplishments yet is fully aware of what still needs to be done—and urgently. \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e breaks ground for research and education in the third millennium, shielding science from its worst enemies by offering a realistic and original program to heal our divided world and our ailing planet.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jimena Canales, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“We are in a crisis that is global, civilizational, existential in scale. A conceptual transformation is needed. \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e shows us why.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Stuart A. Kauffman, author of \u003ci\u003eA World Beyond Physics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAt Home in the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAdam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a winner of the Carl Sagan Medal. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLight of the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth, the 2019 Templeton Prize laureate, and author of seven widely translated books, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of a Mindful Universe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 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