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Jane Rawson

Jane Rawson is a novelist, essayist and short story writer, and the Editorial Manager of Island Magazine.

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The value humans place in intellect at the expense of other forms of intelligence

Humans are bad at valuing the things we are not good at. We bundle our strengths together and call them intelligence, then say that intelligence is the best thing to have. And we valorise sight above all the other senses. Hearing once meant much more to us, but we have pushed it to the periphery of our lives.

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