That act of interpretation is prob the key thing I'm interested in here (and used to think about specifically in context of radio pulsars)..
There’s a slew of neutrons out in the Crab Nebula, and a slew of photons coming our way, but there’s no objective criterion for “pulsar,” >
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in the sense that there’s always going to be marginal cases, and there’s no independently-existing criterion of whether a particle is part >
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of “the object” (whether a jam jar or pulsar). Rather, perception is the *active process* of separating things into objects and categories.
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