We like to think of ourselves as realists. As observers. As truth-tellers.
But Chapter 2 invites a more uncomfortable possibility:
What if most of what we see was never there at all?
This chapter explores the mind’s uncanny power to fill in gaps, invent edges, and overwrite uncertainty with certainty.
From blind spots and phantom limbs to social realities and scientific paradigms, we ask:
How do we know what we think we know?
And what might we be missing, precisely because our model works too well?