"Today we find - not in science but in a widely prevalent philosophy of the sciences - an entirely new approach. Constructive scientific activities see themselves and reprsent themselves to be autonomous, and their thinking deliberately reduceds itself to a set of data-collecting techniques which it has invented. To think is thus to test out, to operate, to transform - the only restiction being that this activity is regulated by an experimental control that admits only the most "worked-up" phenomena, more likely produced by the apparatus than recorded by it."
Johnson, Galen A. Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (Spep). Northwestern University Press, 1994. pp. 121-122
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We tend to think that the data we collect through an apparatus being the unadulterated duplica of reality. When in fact, everything is affected by the apparatus. There is only a representation, not replication.
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