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Science explores coherent but cognitively unavailable directions
Original: The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions
A new paper argues that science occupies 'alien' regions of conceptual space: directions of inquiry that are logically coherent yet cognitively unavailable to human minds, because our evolved intuitions cannot reach them. The work asks why some coherent theories feel impossible to grasp and what that implies for the limits and future progress of scientific discovery.
Why now: Fresh philosophical research on the cognitive limits of scientific thinking is drawing attention from readers interested in how much of reality may remain permanently beyond human comprehension
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