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What Counts as Seeing
We have used technology to make the invisible visible and the inaudible audible. This ability to dip into other Umwelten is our greatest sensory skill.
Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Across human abilities and cultures, there are myriad ways in which our sensory capabilities and even our cultures and languages render our subjective experiences of the world incomprehensible to others of our own kind.
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
Determined to avoid what she later called the “human bias” of popular science writing, Carson sought to portray the world of waters solely from a creaturely perspective, urging readers to “shed [their] human perceptions.”