Tag: science

  • Consciousness, Language, and the Limits of Observation

    Consciousness, Language, and the Limits of Observation

    Trying to understand consciousness has something in common with trying to understand the tiniest parts of the physical world. Both raise the same strange issue: the closer we look, the less certain we become. Physics names this limit Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: when you measure one aspect of a particle, like its position, you blur another,…