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.
