{"title":"Adam Frank","description":"Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a winner of the Carl Sagan Medal. He is the author of Light of the Stars.","products":[{"product_id":"the-blind-spot-why-science-cannot-ignore-human-experience-paperback","title":"The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is by far the best book I've read this year.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction, Harvard University; #1 New York Times bestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's tempting to think that science gives us a God's-eye view of reality. 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When we try to understand reality only through external physical things imagined from this outside position, we lose sight of the necessity of experience. This is the Blind Spot, which the authors show lies behind our scientific conundrums about time and the origin of the universe, quantum physics, life, AI and the mind, consciousness, and Earth as a planetary system. The authors propose an alternative vision: scientific knowledge is a self-correcting narrative made from the world and our experience of it evolving together. 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