...it's interesting because as a theorist you never know the whole pipeline from observational mess to neat theory...
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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What’s cool here is we can hear in real time these guys accomplishing the work, for first time ever, of individuating a pulsar-as-object
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