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The Enlightenment - The Ultimate Take on Human Subjectivity
To a post modernist, what you are is an instantiation of an almost infinitely narrow set of cultural and historical parameters that dictate not only everything you do think, but the narrow limits to what you can think. This classic enlightenment erataic on human subjectivity would seem outdated, naive. And to continue to believe it based on what we know now would be delusion. There's no such thing as a scientist checking their ego and biases the door. They may check the ones they're self aware of, but what about the ones they don't even know they have? What about the biases and theories that make perception even possible? The ones that run all the way down to the very process