59 You Are at the Center of the Universe: And That May Not Mean What You Think

“A man walks into a coffeehouse” is no joke. In this  redux of an earlier episode, Dr. Liam uses a little coffeehouse mischief to explore the idea that human beings stand at the center of what they know, and why that esoteric idea is so important. The Scientific Revolution taught us that Earth is not the physical center of the cosmos, but we can never step outside ourselves and observe the past from nowhere. History comes to us through human minds, memories, evidence, language, and judgment, and the way we understand and tell other people’s stories matters.