El Punto Ciego - by Adam Frank & Marcelo Gleiser & Evan Thompson (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson argue for a revolutionary vision of the scientific world, one that includes humanity's lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth. Since the Enlightenment, science has been turned to knowing who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, but we have been stuck thinking that we can know the universe from outside our position in it. When we try to understand reality only through external physical things, imagined from this external position, we lose sight of the need for experience. This is the blind spot that, according to the authors, lies behind our scientific enigmas about time and the origin of the universe, quantum physics, life, artificial intelligence, mind, consciousness, and the Earth as a planetary system. The authors propose an alternative vision: scientific knowledge as a self-correcting narrative made from the world and our experience of it.

About the Author

Adam Frank es Catedrá tico del Departamento de Fí sica y Astronomí a de la Universidad de Rochester y ganador de la Medalla Carl Sagan. Es autor de La luz de las estrellas. Adam Frank is Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal. He is the author of The Light of the Stars. Marcelo Gleiser es catedrá tico Appleton de Filosofí a Natural en Dartmouth, galardonado con el Premio Templeton 2019 y autor de siete libros, entre los que destaca El universo consciente. Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth, winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize and author of seven books, including The Conscious Universe. Evan Thompson es catedrá tico de Filosofí a en la Universidad de Columbia Britá nica. Es autor o coautor de cinco libros sobre ciencia cognitiva y filosofí a, entre ellos The Embodied Mind. Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He is the author or co-author of five books on cognitive science and philosophy, including The Embodied Mind.