Every scientific instrument that has ever been created has a common component that is usually overlooked; telescopes have this component; microscopes have this component; particle accelerators have this component. This common component of all scientific instruments is the one who is looking, the scientist, the assumed entity that observes and interprets what appears to be happening on the other end of the instrument.
It’s actually impossible to remove the scientist from science. There always has to be an observer for there to be something that is being observed. There has to be an understander for there to be something to be understood. There has to be something that knows for anything to be known.
The separate supposed entity, which we call a scientist (or even a consumer of science), is an integral component of the whole scientific endeavor. The very purpose of science is to increase knowledge and understanding through observation. There’s nothing wrong with any of this, although it usually doesn’t receive this level of scrutiny.
But what if the whole of the scientific endeavor was based on a single, incorrect axiom? What if the assumed subject does really exist at all? “Of course it doesn’t!” I hear you cry, “Science is completely objective!”
