The Telephoto Fallacy
Why Seeing Isn't Always Believing
Different species sense the world differently. Dogs smell the world. Bats hear it. Catfish taste it; their bodies are covered in 100,000 taste buds, which is why they’re known as the “swimming tongue.”
Homo sapiens, of course, see the world. Vision is by far our dominant sense. Our language reflects this truth. Faced with …
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