intersubjectivity

  • we all are ultimately one subject, have one perspective
  • the only reliable measures are intersubjective, combinatory of our fragments
  • peer review is most reliable form of data as it produces emergent, convergent knowledge

  • “When we are with others, we are always something other than what we are when we are alone.” ⤴️ All Together Now Collective Knowledge, Collective Narratives, and Architectures of Participation
  • “In the phenomenological approach he describes in Being and Time, Heidegger distinguishes between Da-sein, being in the world, and Mitda-sein, the state of being-together-in-the-world” ⤴️
  • “In discussing how we arrive at consensus, Habermas writes of “linguistically generated intersubjectivity,” the use of language to create a subject that is not the self, but subjectivity shared with others” ⤴️
  • “Luhmann, in Social Systems, argues that people are not society, but parts of its environment” ⤴️
  • “whenever people are collaborating on a project of knowledge sharing or creative production, they are collaborating not only with other people, but with a system which they, the other participants, and the communicative environment help to create.” ⤴️
  • “In networked computer environments in particular, collaboration is always both collaboration with other people and with systems.” ⤴️