📦 Bias in the Kingdom of Nouns

In the land of Science, where The Empirior rules with objectivity, people aren’t allowed to think the way you and I do. In Science, you see, measurement is very important, by order of the Empirior himself. Objects are the most important citizens in the land.

• 🔗 Adapted from the classic

We live in a universe of fluids; of radiation, gas, plasma and liquid. And also a tiny bit of solids, which hardly deserve a mention.

From a crust-centric stance, everything is an object. We are objects that eat food objects, seek objects give us shelter and - at risk of objectifying - sex. We raise smaller objects, and our 2.5 dimensional territory is split into place objects. We build tool objects from smaller objects, which we use to transform one type of object into another. Everything is an object.

The sun is an object, a cloud is an object. The fire that warms us is a fire (not some fire), and the stream we can’t step into twice is a clue-shaped conundrum object. Yet we have a drink and breathe a breath, and consider a wave and a rock to be very different types of object.

Science is the practice of empiricism. That is, of measuring to discover an objective truth. And in empiricism, something must be observed multiple times in order to exist, through its lens nothing else does. Through these observations we discover the rules - the word objects - that every atom object must obey.

The universe, objectively speaking, is the object that contains all objects. And some other things, which hardly deserve a mention.