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

Mentions

“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” ⤴️ ^d8a97a
“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.” ⤴️

note that not all hierarchies are inherently unjust, but many oppressive systems rely on arbitrary, non-consensual hierarchies in order to exercise control and domination
reasonable hierarchies exist with consent and within context eg allowing a knowledgeable clinician to administer a complex treatment, vs the same clinician having complete power and control over every aspect of your life

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flat ontology

where each unit is equal to (or can be treated equal to?) another

“any given item could be linked to any other item in the database according to any criteria.” ⤴️ Ted Nelson on Xanadu ->