Direct Observation in Science

David Wheeler asks a question about direct observation, at least in part. Poppy introduced the concept of observation being theory laden and that we don't directly observe anything. The purpose of observations on this view is to then decide between the guesses that we conjecture about the nature of reality. This whole concept of direct observation actually itself vanishes into a cloud of explanation. It's hard to imagine what people mean when they talk about direct observation. And I would really argue that even our own minds are quite a highly kind of knowledge that we only know through an extensive chain of interpretations.