![]() ![]() ![]() “A sophisticated epistemic position understands that research conducted by the disciplines is similar to the activity of the blind men trying to make sense of the elephant. Here’s another take on it from the book Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies: Our conscious experience of the outside world is one of the great mysteries of neuroscience: not only do we not have a theory to explain how private subjective experience emerges from a network of cells, we currently aren’t even certain what such a theory would look like.” - David Eagleman, Neuroscientist (2) ![]() Your reality is running entirely in a dark theater. From these signals it extracts patterns, assigns meaning to them, and creates your subjective experience of the outside world. Those signals are all it has to work with and nothing more. All it ever experiences are electrochemical signals coursing around through its massive jungle of neurons. ![]() Instead, your brain is locked in a vault of silence and darkness inside your skull. Your brain is not directly experiencing any of that. “Consider that whole beautiful world around you, with all its colors and sounds and smells and textures. Our brain is literally blind-it lives in a vault of silence and darkness inside your skull: Our senses offer limited information (and even this isn’t reality itself). ![]()
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