Book: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Author: Ed Yong
(Listening/Reading 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.
- (reasonable assertion) sensory organs evolved to filter out the information necessary for organisms to survive in their ecological niche.
- Information consumption limits and the necessity for a Healthy information diet