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Agnotology (IGNORANCE) with Robert Proctor
Ologies with Alie Ward
The Creation of Ignorance in Animals
Horses have a range of vision of about 350 degrees. They could pretty much see everything but their own butts. Their eye anatomy involves something called a nervous tunic, which sounds like something i would wear in a imare of me giving a ted talk. Human eyesight is more literally straightforward. We have a fovia, which concentrates our perception. That's very different from a prey like a deer. And so even in our biology, it means we have this intensive focus, and we have to ignore everything. So that's another aspect of agnetology, is actually looking at a the creation of ignorance, even in tn the non human animal world.
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