Perfect knowing is no substitute for embodied human experience.

Evidence

It is easier for them to commune with steeples, radio masts, birds and airplanes than with the foreshortened humans at street level. … Around them is the constant susurration of human voices, the bewilderment on human faces, fragments of trouble, pain and delight half grasped, understood with a superior knowledge but never with a human knowledge. They long for this knowledge, as children long to exchange their own mental world for the brutal insights of adulthood. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 355

Categorization

• SEED: Mantel’s angel/human contrast models a writing principle: strangeness of viewpoint is a way to make ordinary embodied experience newly vivid.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 355
• XREF: connects to: Thought is proper to every person, unlike specialized scientific skills.

Related

• Thought is proper to every person, unlike specialized scientific skills. (similarity 0.86)