Book: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Author: Ed Yong

(Listening in progress)

0. The Only True Voyage

  • Umwelt - sensory environment, perceptual bubble
    • sensory windows that allow to physical world in different ways
    • size of the house, windows etc might be different.. but everybody is stuck in a house
    • each species is constrained on some ways and liberated in others.
    • interesting idea about Umwelt as a equalizing concept. Every animal has stuck in a perceptual bubble, seeing a fraction of the world and being unique in their own way.
  • the impossibility of sensing everything - both in terms of resource drain as well as the near infinite flow of information.
    • our senses filter what we need.