
Marcelo Gleiser on Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
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Exploring the Island of Knowledge
This chapter delves into the expanding island of knowledge and the evolving boundary between known and unknown as science advances, highlighting the role of inventions like the telescope and microscope. It discusses the essence of knowledge, the limitations of current scientific methods including Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Godel's incompleteness theorem, and the concept of unknowables that lie beyond current scientific capabilities.
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