Jeremy wrote something the other day about ghost hunting technology that was a perspective I never considered before. Check it out:

Most modern Ghost Hunters use a wide array of instruments to investigate spooks. Simply seeing a ghost isn’t enough, even in a group. There has to be hard data to back up the subjective evidence, and modern equipment, in theory, can provide this data. But, there’s a catch: the data collected during ghosthunting relies solely on anomalous equipment reaction. A temperature gauge, for instance, indicates a ghost when it begins reading anomalous temperatures. An EMP field appears where it shouldn’t; the proof is anomalous. An “orb” appears on camera where it shouldn’t. This evidence is predicated on data that appears to contradict the way that the equipment typically functions. Taken philosophically, we could say that the equipment itself is recording its own subjective experience.

This idea that a machine could have a subjective experience seemed really shocking to me at first. But it makes total sense. We tend to think that subjectivity is something that only humans struggle with. And we rely on outside records for some measure of objectivity. But what makes a video camera more objective than us? Doesn’t it too have a limited perspective from which to view the world? Can’t it also distort or miss things because of that perspective? Doesn’t it fall prey to anomalies and mistakes just like our own perception? If machines aren’t objective, then what is? Is there really such a thing anywhere? Is that what god is - unlimited perspective, totally objective, without error or distortion? Is that why He’s so hard for us to understand?