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The Blind Spot
Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
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Well, a book that was really influential in the writing of this book is a book called The Blind Spot. It's by a philosopher, Evan Thompson, and two physicists, Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser. It's a critique of Western science.
Michael Pollan · The Book Review · May 2026 Listen at 1:26:00 The best things said about it
And there people who argue with I I talked to philosophers um Evan Thompson is somebody in particular author of an amazing book called the blind spot.
So this is something that you write about in "The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience," sort of trying to pull the fire into the process of science.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2024 Where and when it comes up
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The Blind Spot by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson is a critical examination of Western science that argues against strict materialism by reintegrating human experience into the scientific process. Michael Pollan heavily recommended the book during appearances on The Book Review and The Ezra Klein Show, citing it as a deeply influential text during his own writing process and praising its powerful critique of the physical sciences. Alex Kantrowitz brought up the book on Big Technology Podcast while conversing with Michael Pollan about whether artificial intelligence could ever develop true consciousness. Lex Fridman also discussed the volume with Adam Frank on the Lex Fridman Podcast, exploring how the authors attempt to rescue lived human experience from the blind spots of traditional scientific materialism. Across these podcasts, the book is celebrated as a vital philosophical intervention that challenges how modern science understands reality, consciousness, and the subjective human observer.
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Michael Pollan Well, a book that was really influential in the writing of this book is a book called The Blind Spot. It's… 2
“Well, a book that was really influential in the writing of this book is a book called The Blind Spot. It's by a philosopher, Evan Thompson, and two physicists, Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser. It's a critique of Western science.”
“Well, a book that was really influential in the writing of this book is a book called "The Blind Spot" It’s by a philosopher, Evan Thompson, and two physicists, Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser. It’s a critique of Western science, and it makes a very powerful case that the blind spot of the physical sciences is inability to deal with”
Alex Kantrowitz And there people who argue with I I talked to philosophers um Evan Thompson is somebody in particular autho… 1
“And there people who argue with I I talked to philosophers um Evan Thompson is somebody in particular author of an amazing book called the blind spot.”
Lex Fridman So this is something that you write about in "The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience,"… 1
“So this is something that you write about in "The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience," sort of trying to pull the fire into the process of science.”
