The Reality Bubble
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Average rating3.7
What are we not seeing? Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, and the animals that can see in infrared or ultraviolet or with 360-degree vision. In The Reality Bubble, Ziya Tong illuminates this hidden world and takes us on a journey to examine ten of humanity’s biggest blind spots. What she reveals is not on the things we didn’t evolve to see but, more dangerously, the blindness of modern society. Fast-paced, utterly fascinating and deeply humane, this vitally important book gives voice to the sense we’ve all had – that there is more to the world than meets the eye.
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This book is full of interesting thoughts and tidbits, but ultimately lacking structure and a clear focus. Yes, we have many blindspots, but biological blindspots are very different to willful or forced-upon blindspots. Our senses and brains create a very specific umwelt for us that hides many aspects of reality that science now can reveal. But the realities that a capitalist society chooses to obscure (the meat industry, plumbing, finance, climate..) are created, and we are mostly happy to ignore them.
This book reads like snippets of many other books I've recently read, and I can't blame it for that, because these are all good topics to attack. But it absolutely didn't need those two chapters on the history of measuring time and space.
