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Attempting to reduce pain that was context dependent to a number just made it clear that there was no way to make this invisible symptom legible to others. And the poet in me found all the metaphors for pain to be limited. “Burning,” “tingling,” “stabbing”—these words did little to describe pain’s reality, which ebbed and flowed according to its ow

despite out best efforts to create coherent narratives, for the most part we live fragmented lives in a world of chaos

The trouble with error is that we have a natural tendency to dismiss it. When Kevin Dunbar analyzed the data from his in vivo studies of microbiology labs, one of his most remarkable findings was just how many experiments produced results that were genuinely unexpected. More than half of the data collected by the researchers deviated significantly

“literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear, and, save for one or two passions such as desire and greed, is null, negligible and nonexisent.” We lack a language to capture “this monster, the body, this miracle, its pain,” and if we t

The first is ignorance—we may err because science has given us only a partial understanding of the world and how it works. There are skyscrapers we do not yet know how to build, snowstorms we cannot predict, heart attacks we still haven’t learned how to stop. The second type of failure the philosophers call ineptitude—because in these instances the