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The Crucial Blind Spot
- The 'blind spot' is the unseen condition of possibility behind all knowledge and perception.
- Science ignores the subjective experience as the seer of all phenomena, creating gaps in understanding.
Ignoring Blind Spot Breeds Paradoxes
- Ignoring the blind spot causes unsolvable paradoxes in science, like the hard problem of consciousness.
- Attempts to explain subjectivity purely in objective terms inevitably fail due to this foundational oversight.
From Physics to Meaningful Worlds
- Alex Gomez-Marin's physics background collided with the complexity of biological meaningful worlds in fruit flies.
- This led him to phenomenology and the concept of umwelt, helping him better interpret animal behavior scientifically.