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%AFFIRMATIONS OF SELF-REFERENTIAL BEHAVIOR 841018
Not all self-referential behavior obviously refers to
the person engaged in the behavior. Jack may have become
closely identified with Jill, so that when Jack refers to
Jill he is engaging in self-referential behavior. Jill
may have become closely identified with some particular
religious group, so that when Jack makes reference to that
religious group, his behavior is by extension also
self-referential. In such extended situations it
is presumptuous to pretend that one's own behavior is free
of bias, completely objective.
The scientist who is engaged in an objective study of
certain objects---is likely to regard such behavior
as objective behavior, thinking uncritically that because
the nature of the study is objective the nature---of
the behavior is also objective. In the case of the
nature of the study---the word "objective" points to:
the choice of the scientist to be emotionally
uninvolved in the objects under analysis and control;
the choice to not let the objects point
personally back to him in an emotionally laden way;
the choice to not become involved in an "I-Thou"
relationship with that which is being studied;
the choice to participate in a "I-It" relationship
with the object of analysis. The behavior of the
scientist is essentially self-referential. The behavior
is inherently an affirmation of the self regarding the
value of spending time in the chosen way. It is
impossible for the nature of behavior to be non-self-
referential, The nature of approach to an object may
be objective. The nature of approach to a person may be
objective only if the approach is disintegrative.
Bias is not eliminated by being a member of a
collusion which pretends that the nature of the behavior
of the participants is objective. The collusion involves
covert claims that point away from the participants;
and claims that there is no collusion. The collusion is
self-referential. The collusion involves the false
implicit claim that the participants' behavior is
objective, when that is impossible.
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