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%OBJECTIFYING PERSONAL PERCEPTOR 790901
Mother likes beets. Jack does not like beets. Their
preferences may be objectively verified. Mother
translates her preference into an objective statement
about beets. Mother says not, "I like beets." but "Beets
taste good." She does not say, "Beets taste good to me."
but just "Beets taste good." She forgets, as do most
scientists, the important role of the "observer". Her
statement would more accurately be a statement about the
relationship between beets and her, rather than an
arrogant statement about beets as objectified and
separated from relationship with her. Observations
pertain to relationships between "objects" and "subjects"
relationship when stating an observation is to be less
than fully honest. Jack as a child may not be able to
criticize mother's faulty reporting, but Jack knows that
beets are not objects which "taste good", much less "are
good". Jack knows intuitively that he plays an essential
role in the process of tasting and how beets taste. He is
unconvinced by Mother's instance that beets taste good.
A compulsively objective culture does not respect
personal reports of personal perceptions. Reports are
respected only if they are objectified, rationalized,
homogenized, quantified, analyzed, etc. The raw data of
unique personal sensory experience tends not to be
affirmed or respected. It is not personal relationships
with persons or objects which are respected, it is
objectified statements about ostensibly separated objects
which are respected. The personal participation of the
subject in the subject-object relationship of sensation,
perception, feeling, and affect is denied.
The physicist which makes such denials in
professional activities can be relatively successful unit:
(1) Confronted with the Heisenberg uncertainties of
quantal phenomena, and (2) Confronted with the personal
uncertainties of personal phenomena. Teachers are
involved in essentially personal relationship with their
personal uncertainties. To deny the reality of the
personal participation of the teacher in the perception of
the student is to objectify the student and undermine the
possibility of a helpful relationship.
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