"Why should we expect being able to find an explanation for everything, given our cognitive capacity?" she asks. She says that one of the things that she finds exciting about the limitations of science and of the human brain is it allows her to open herself up to other philosophical traditions. "For example, in indian philosophy, there's this notion of maya, of sion, right? What is the illusion?".
In the 1920s, the scientist Werner Heisenberg came up with a wild idea that broke reality as Western science knew it. And it's still unsettling to think about. Benjamin Labatut's recent book, When We Cease to Understand the World, makes readers feel the aftershocks of the revelation, asking, "What's real?"
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