
Episode 5: Chapter 3, Part 2 "The Spark"
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The Limits of the Human Brain
Science foroallis its successes and aspirations, would turn out to be inherently parochial and ironically anthropecentric. What we discover is limited by our biological evolution, in particular, by our brains. Once things start to get too big or too small, they will be incomprehensible to us. Even if those things that are going on out there are governed by laws of physics, the laws of physics might be incomprehensible. David speaks about how o richard dorkin says that within this sort of human sized world that is comprehensible to us a, the world can turn out to seem unproblematic. But outside, once things get too big, too small, whatever, then
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