See to Believe
In this, the fourth article of the series on the pandemic and the senses, Gaudêncio Fidelis discusses vision as the most established of the senses in epistemology.
To a great extent, the accuracy of our ocular system has been credited to our primate ancestors and their fear of snakes, which posed a great threat to their survival. With that, vision gained precedent over other senses such as smell. From a metaphorical perspective, when Eve looked at the serpent at the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”, the confrontation led to the unraveling of reality as a testimony of knowledge.
The article below discusses the denial of science amidst of the COVID-19 pandemic as a failure vision as a dominant mechanism to understand eminent danger.
