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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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The Human Perceptual System of the Town Was Probably Really Bad

We still don't understand all the weird ways that human perception works. And they were probably terrible at it. They probably didn't have any conceptual peripheral vision or the phobia of basically anything. It's a beautiful complex mess, that whole thing. I mean, because actually was Newton himself who probed a lot of this.

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