{"id":235761,"date":"2026-04-23T06:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/your-brain-may-be-as-blind-to-reality-as-a-grasshopper-is-to-calculus-michelle-thaller"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:05:33","slug":"your-brain-may-be-as-blind-to-reality-as-a-grasshopper-is-to-calculus-michelle-thaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/your-brain-may-be-as-blind-to-reality-as-a-grasshopper-is-to-calculus-michelle-thaller","title":{"rendered":"Your brain may be as blind to reality as a grasshopper is to calculus | Michelle Thaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1b1LvthBs5w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the distant future could we redesign the brain for more understanding of the universe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_<\/a>\u2026 What if the universe was never designed to be understood? Astronomer Michelle Thaller makes a case that the human brain, despite its complexity, may be as poorly equipped to grasp ultimate reality as a grasshopper is to.<\/p>\n<p>What if the universe was never designed to be understood? Astronomer Michelle Thaller makes a case that the human brain, despite its complexity, may be as poorly equipped to grasp ultimate reality as a grasshopper is to grasp calculus.<\/p>\n<p>About Michelle Thaller:<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Thaller is an astronomer and Assistant Director for Science Communication at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/your-brain-may-be-as-blind-to-reality-as-a-grasshopper-is-to-calculus-michelle-thaller\">Continue reading \u201cYour brain may be as blind to reality as a grasshopper is to calculus | Michelle Thaller\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the distant future could we redesign the brain for more understanding of the universe. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\u2026 What if the universe was never designed to be understood? Astronomer Michelle Thaller makes a case that the human brain, despite its complexity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}