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CHAPTER To unite or to separate? keystone of all of the following developments. The difficulty of the scien- tific exercise consists of dissociating from the fact in order to analyze it. In other words, the ideal point of view for a scientist is that of a discrete and impartial observer. The canonical approach of science, based on the expe- rience outside oneself, is therefore the mascot of research professionals and the essential reason for the rise of materialism. If the research object is outside of us, then the formal approval is validated by separating the observer from the object observed. This is what lays the foundation for objectivity as it has been understood since the Age of Enlightenment. This separation is not just useful in research. It is indispensable, for it establishes the legitimacy of the researcher! In other words, truth requires separation. However, it seems that mystics have always seen reality as a unity. We are beginning to understand that the intelligence of materialist science is a rather pale copy of the science of the future: holistic science. This notion of separation is what underlies the “hard” or “pure” sci- ences. We can avoid the subject or pay lip service to the influence of the observer on quantum mechanics experiments, but we continue to pre- tend it does not exist when we use the representations (equations) of mathematical formalism. A physicist (specialized in missile manufac- turing) who sat next to me at lunch one day told me about the gap between reality, concept and representation: “it is not perfect, but it is the only way we know how. In addition, experiments often prove us right.” Indeed, we have not found a better way yet. It is true...they are right because they “make” it so in the frame- work of the formalism they invented; an increasingly complicated 101 THIS A PRIORI INTANGIBLE NOTION of time is the