Syntactic space

Rajesh Kasturirangan

pp. 327-335

in: Shyam Wuppuluri, Giancarlo Ghirardi (eds), Space, time and the limits of human understanding, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

Space, as they say, is everywhere. Since we are visual creatures and visual experience is spatial, space (with a visual tinge) dominates our world. While visual perception is enormously useful—it's the only sensory modality that transcends our earthly existence; no other sense can grasp stars and galaxies—it also prevents us from understanding the world of other creatures.