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“There can be no experience of the world without the experiencer and that, my dear friends, is us.”<\/p> <\/div>\n

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“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn\u2019t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space\u2026 it appears to us, exactly where and when we are. That means to you or to me right now. In other words, you can\u2019t ignore the brute, existential, phenomenological fact of being subjects.”<\/p>

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“When should a scientist make public declarations about a cutting-edge topic with absolute certainty? I\u2019d say never. There is no clear-cut certainty in cutting-edge science. There are hypotheses that should be tested more until there is community consensus. Even then, consensus is not guaranteed proof. The history of science is full of examples where leading scientists were convinced of something, only to be proven wrong later.”<\/p>

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