
On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
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How to Find Hidden Objects in the Brain
Scientists come up with questions and hypotheses based on their hidden assumptions. A famous anecdote illustrates this phenomenon. Scientists look for things that we know how to conceive of, but there might be things tat the brain codes that we haven't even thought of. We only kind of break free of our concepts when we can somehow equip ourselves with some new theoretical notion that makes certain things visible that used to be invisible.
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