https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/what-is-the-sky-c67a32bdc4b

“It is natural to imagine that the desire to know ‘what is actually the case?’ is the correct starting place. Surely, it must be that there is an actual case, and it follows that, whether or not we could directly ‘determine’ its nature, structure, function, meaning and activities… we could, by way of the removal of illusions, delusions and impediments coupled with experiment and discovery, succeed. And this is, in part, the motivation of scientific and some philosophic endeavors.

Whether we consider it to be fortunate or not, this formation of the question is intrinsically flawed due to the peculiar nature of human awareness, experience, and participation in phenomenon. ‘The actual case’, turns out to be shorthand for something resembling what ’emotionally and cognitively inert observers’ might detect. This goal supposes a ‘dead universe’ of objects, functions and physical interactions.

Nothing like that has ever been ‘the actual case’, though it is also true that the forms of thought and concern from which the physical sciences arise are valid in the scope natural to their ‘objective-knowledge’-oriented value systems. They are not precisely untrue; rather they are incomplete in the sense of being the produce of vast limitations of scope and concern.”

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