This was one of Hannah Arendt's best insights, that the invention of the telescope changed the meaning of what it meant to be *human* the boundaries shifted and shrank, the ego got yet more decentered. Instruments de-anthropocentralize the human condition.
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This isn't the law of large number though
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What happens when the instrumentation is integrated with human biology? Example: data from a prosthetic limb. More interesting example: data from a radio telescope array. Does the scale of the human mind present limits re some types of knowledge? A Bohr-ing analogy:pic.twitter.com/2lmJbhBVrA
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What a funny way to end it. Your essay skills distilled into short-form are just as lit. I appreciate that you have an astrophysics background. I'm often considered esoteric for mashing up humanities and STEM ideas.
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