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Originally Posted by roachboy
science is no more separate from other areas of social being than the economy is separate from other areas of social life. it is not a space that generates "objectivity" that enables anyone to hitch themselves to it at the level of claims as a device to get them off the hook: we are embedded phenomena, recursion does not get your outside of your own embeddeness necessarily--more often it simply repeats the parameters of one's embeddedness in the social-historical.
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For me, at least, I am not seeing science as being separate at all... it operates in me, through me, outside of me... it is reality that I am thoroughly embedded in. Perhaps "science" is the wrong word to use, I don't know. But it is opposed to a kind of metaphysical embeddedness that used to be my life perspective... which no longer applies. I see little inherent meaning in anything anymore, and I find that strangely refreshing. We are just... here. Atoms crashing around, cells pumping, trees breathing, rocks sitting... take your pick, it is all just HERE, and that's what makes it worth it to me, every day. Finding out what's here.