Scientific precision can block, not enable, deeper understanding of attention

Evidence

Well, this kind of thing actually does matter. After all, when you are pushing for revolutionary change, and you are advocating radical new kinds of understanding, the fact that, by and large, everyone is mostly stuck on one very narrow and specific concept is a genuine problem. And here, because scientific ideas are so technically powerful and authentically compelling, the best practices of well-meaning scientists can actually present very real “blockages” for deep, true, and necessary transformation. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 142

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth testing: does the book actually demonstrate scientists as blockages, or only assert it? The bet-test needs concrete examples.
• STORYSTEM: Potentially useful tension for fiction: a technically precise discipline that forecloses genuine understanding of its own object.
• XREF: connects to: Wonder at the spectacular can block understanding of everyday harmony — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 672; Philosophical interpretation reorganizes minute scientific details without exceeding their range