cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The second thing that stood out to me was the description of the scientific method, as practiced in "the west", as a set of practices that separate knowledge from experience, which sets the stage for giving priority to "scientific knowledge" over direct experience.
Of course, it doesn't have to be that way, and I think there is evidence that people have been working to make a shift to allow "vernacular experience" to direct scientific investigations. So that's good.