Scott Matter on Nostr: npub1psdfx…99sr7 Totally agree! But it’s a fun way to suggest the absurdity of ...
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Totally agree!
But it’s a fun way to suggest the absurdity of the quest for objectivity in science. Every author of science is also redefining the words they use when it gets beyond simple empirical description.
Science also has (inherently) subjective elements because it’s humans doing it. Hell, even when intelligent machines do it, they have human subjectivity encoded into their fascinating little electronic essences.
Maybe this is my bias as an anthropologist (who can never quite bring himself to say “social scientist”), but the scientific quest for objectivity has limits, and trying to push beyond those and eradicate any subjectivity from science looks to me like futile pursuit of non-existent godhood.
Totally agree!
But it’s a fun way to suggest the absurdity of the quest for objectivity in science. Every author of science is also redefining the words they use when it gets beyond simple empirical description.
Science also has (inherently) subjective elements because it’s humans doing it. Hell, even when intelligent machines do it, they have human subjectivity encoded into their fascinating little electronic essences.
Maybe this is my bias as an anthropologist (who can never quite bring himself to say “social scientist”), but the scientific quest for objectivity has limits, and trying to push beyond those and eradicate any subjectivity from science looks to me like futile pursuit of non-existent godhood.