#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

9800.417 - 9821.13 Adam Frank

Yeah, so the idea of The Blind Spot is that there is this thing that That is central to science. So we're using the blind spot as a metaphor, right? So the eye has an optic nerve and the optic nerve is what allows vision to happen. So you can't have vision without the optic nerve, but actually you're blind to the optic nerve. There's a little hole in your vision where the optic nerve is.