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Scientism’s use of nonhuman models of interaction

The "scientific community" imposes upon itself a rigorous and focused discipline which is characterized by a healthy skepticism. It only claims to know something through sensory evidence. When scientists rely upon machines, they are enhancing the scope and reach of their fields of sensation. Using machines is indirect in a way but it is not considered non-sensory. Scientists sense microscopically and macroscopically, reaching into the atom and scanning the edges of the cosmos.

The scientific method restricts itself to using empirical observations, rational hypotheses and reasoned deductions to test and offer "scientific" explanations. It restricts itself to understanding reality and truth by testing only that which can be repeated and so evaluated by an independent third party. In this light, it is an ahistorical mode of observation. In contrast, history is the interpretation of non-repeatable events which occur once.

Scientism arose when thinkers began to model human interactions on the model of non-human interactions.

In the first wave of Scientism, the scientific facts reflected upon were mainly those which were observable by the five gross common senses. The physical world of early biology and astronomy supplied the most useful models. Intellectuals and others would say, “What if human society is like nonhuman society?” They would model human organization upon theories derived from watching bees or ants or animals in-the-wild (“state of Nature”).

Over time, even as the sciences became more mechanized and individuals could peer into the micro and the macro, the approach remained the same, namely, that nonhuman observations or data was used to interpret what human interactions or values are or should be.

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