The Limitations of Perception
What humans can perceive is not reality in full, but our own picture of reality, constructed by our brains from clues to reality collected by
What humans can perceive is not reality in full, but our own picture of reality, constructed by our brains from clues to reality collected by

Imagine spaceship of humans visiting our solar system and landing on Earth. Outside small interval highlighted in green window on the timeline, human survival on the surface would require a spacesuit, and outside the yellow highlighted time window, even the oceans would only contain organisms visible by microscope. Visit today, and the visitors have missed peak life which occurred 500 million years in the past, and instead see life in gradual slow decline to its imminent demise. Life is fragile, and it is dying.




























