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Science explores coherent but cognitively unreachable directions
Original: The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions
A new paper on arXiv argues that scientific discovery may be constrained not only by logic but by human cognition: some theories can be internally coherent yet lie in conceptual 'space' so alien to human intuition that they are effectively unavailable to researchers. The essay-style work probes why certain coherent directions in science go unexplored and what that implies for the limits of human knowledge and future discovery.
Why now: The paper's claim that science may be blind to coherent but intuitively alien ideas challenges assumptions about the limits of human inquiry.
Evidence
- The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions · martincsweiss · 213
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