Marcelo Gleiser
Brazilian-American physicist and astronomerWikipedia
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Aug 31, 2026
Adam FrankGUEST
All right.
Adam FrankGUEST
So today, um, I'm gonna be talking about the book, The Blind Spot, that I wrote with, um, Marcelo Gleiser and Evan Thompson.
Adam FrankGUEST
I'm also gonna be talking about what we're trying to do afterwards, going beyond the blind spot.
Adam FrankGUEST
So the talk I'll do about maybe twenty minutes to a half an hour, then we'll take a little bit of break, you know, when we get to the end of The Blind Spot, and then we'll go on to the next...
Adam FrankGUEST
We're surfing these ideas, so to speak.
Adam FrankGUEST
Okay, so this book, The Blind Spot, was written by myself and, um, I'm an astrophysicist.
Adam FrankGUEST
Uh, Marcelo Gleiser is a physicist, uh, theoretical physicist, and Evan Thompson is a, um, philosopher.
Adam FrankGUEST
And, you know, so there you go, three old white guys telling you about the universe, right? [chuckles] I'm not sure that's needed, but, uh, we're doing our best here.
John DunneGUEST
Bergson talked, Henri Bergson talks about, that's a key aspect of the phenomenology of time.
John DunneGUEST
And you could say that this is just something great that's in The Blind Spot, that book that Adam and Evan Thompson and Marcelo Gleiser did about, you know, how you lose that aspect of time when you just chop it up into something measurable, but it's actually a key aspect of time.
John DunneGUEST
And that moment, the idea of the timeless time, uh, you know, the present as encompassing every moment is, uh, clearly part of that.
KarenUNKNOWN
Yeah.
Adam FrankGUEST
And for those of you who've been here since twenty eighteen, you'll see it's like, "Haven't I seen that slide four times now?" [laughs] Because I've been-- You know, these slides appear, and then they appear in the next one because the i-- you know, the ideas have evolved.
Adam FrankGUEST
And so there was this book that Evan Thompson and Marcelo Gleiser, who's a theoretical physicist, good friend, um, that we wrote a few years ago called The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.
Adam FrankGUEST
And the whole idea was that not so much science, but the metaphysics, the philosophies, the ideas that sort of swim around when we think about science, that are given to you in every Nova program you've ever watched or, you know, science video on YouTube that you see.
Adam FrankGUEST
Um, those ideas just can't deal with experience.