I occasionally have fits of Heinleinian fantasy, imagining what things would be like if there were a Fair Witness certification (and then I think of cognitive science studies which show that almost everything we perceive is heavily filtered before we even register it.)
It's probably not even possible for a recording device to be objective. (thinking of the "spiral" lifeforms that some photographers have caught, which are actually birds and insects with fast wings.)
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Date: 2008-08-31 06:18 pm (UTC)It's probably not even possible for a recording device to be objective. (thinking of the "spiral" lifeforms that some photographers have caught, which are actually birds and insects with fast wings.)