« Science of Subjectivity »

We don't live in an objective world.  Not at all.  We reside in the world of our own perception.  We don't see the objective world.  No.  We see our own projections.  We are the inhabitants of the info-sphere, residents of our own fantasies, prisoners of our own interpretations. 

"Science deals with objects and treats everything, even consciousness itself, as an object of investigation.  It assumes a world already set up and in its place, a world that includes consciousness, a world in which the elements are causally interconnected.  [Science] ignores, or pretends to ignore, the fact that this world which it sets out to investigate has been in part constituted by and exists only through consciousness.  This world the scientist purports to investigate is my world and the world of each conscious being with ability to reflect.  I am its absolute source.  My consciousness is fundamental to its existence."*

There are no objective objects.  All objects are units of subjectivity, units of perception.  Science - in all its magnificent utility - is a project of introspection. 

When you look through a telescope you are looking through an introscope (of introspection), you are studying the patterns of your own mind.  When you look through a microscope you are again looking through an introscope (of insight), once again studying the patterns of your own mind.**

Thus, all science is fundamentally introspection.  All science is fundamentally psychology.  All science is fundamentally a study of subjectivity.  Thus... all science is literature, fiction, maya***. 

And so is all non-science.

*Cyril Barrett, "Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Perception"

** Gratitude to Andrew Yake, Ph.D. for a conversation (a while back) that helped crystallize this insight.

***Maya - Sanskrit/hindu concept that means "illusion, dream," the world of projection.