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New paper explores scientifically coherent but cognitively unavailable ideas
Original: The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions
A paper on arXiv, 'The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitually unavailable directions', argues there may be valid scientific directions that are internally coherent yet remain inaccessible to human cognition. The work asks whether unknown unknowns in research exist because we cannot conceive of them, not because evidence is missing. It is drawing attention among readers interested in philosophy of science and the limits of scientific discovery.
Why now: Readers are debating whether fundamental scientific discoveries could be structurally unthinkable for the human mind
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- The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions · martincsweiss · 212
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