>>16710171
modern science only exists as an instrument of capital it's not some promethean torch or divining rod that gives us access to an ostensible 'reality' it's just an epistemic community where the truth criteria are based on justifications relative to that community and relative to the body of facts it already accepts and relative to the availability of evidence, the answerability to alternative explanations, the uniformity of assumptions etc... outside of being essentially a social function there are no 'facts' or truths and the scientific forms of these are just one way of doing inquiry... life is simply the flow of blood the twitching of the organism in a variety of ways and what qualifies as truth for that organism is determined concretely by its material and social conditions, its wants and needs, its specific priorities... when god ruled over europe, only the science of god mattered, when god was dethroned, the science of man made the most sense... but to study the transformation of consciousness through its various stages is the only pure form of inquiry, this is what it means to be a student of phenomenology