What we Observe is how we Choose to Observe

Sean McClure
Aug 30, 2024

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Prediction cannot knowingly rest a theory on objectivity, only on precision.

arcseconds of deflection, atomic clocks dilating, perihelion precessions, slits and duality, gold foils and alpha particles, expansions and redshifts…

If math is already how the mind chooses to figure and direct its considerations are we to be surprised when the external observation and math align?

It might be a truly objective system we are elucidating, or it might merely be the inevitable agreement between mental models and perception.

What we observe is how we choose to observe.

This π’Žπ’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’• stand for some deeper, objective reality, but critically, there is nothing in our epistemic arsenal that can decide this.

The π’π’π’π’š rational admission to what science is must rest on the word belief.

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Sean McClure

Independent Scholar; Author of Discovered, Not Designed; Ph.D. Computational Chem; Builder of things; I study and write about science, philosophy, complexity.