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There's this word that Ed Young, over the Atlantic, has gotten a little obsessed with over

the last few years. So I'm pretty sure that I've mangled the word every time I say it,

but I think it's unveilt.

Unveilt is a German word for the idea that each creature exists in a sort of perceptual bubble,

a version of the world only they can experience.

So all of our perceptions of the world are radically different, even if we're in exactly the

same physical space. Human can't see ultraviolet, for example, a bee can, but it can't see the

color red. So that idea of the sensory bubble is the unveilt. It is the thin sliver of reality

that each of us is privy to.

Once he started thinking about unveilts, it was impossible for Ed not to see them at work

all around him, creating interspecies chaos. He couldn't look at funny animal videos online,

without being struck by the way, humans seem to be totally misunderstanding. The animals

all around them.

I remember watching this TikTok video showing a male Argus fessant, a kind of a peacock-like

animal with beautiful feathers, displaying it as a female. Female's walking across in front

of him, seemingly looking away, and the joke was, you know, this fessant is doing everything

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