Episodebeskrivelse
Remember the old maps with boundaries beyond which anything could happen? They always said here be dragons, even in the middle of the ocean.
When we try to think past the limits of our understanding, we always assume we would envision a blank space, a vast emptiness, but that’s not what actually happens.
We fill every gap in knowledge with weird versions of our familiar models.
It works for everything, from imagining what alien life forms might be like to what lies beyond the edges of our visible universe.
The answer always seems to be more of the same, but different.
This goes a lot farther…
Nettsted: theroundyear.substack.com
