Full Idea
The guiding idea of 'haptic realism' is scenarions of cyclical interaction, where it is impossible to extract the contribution of the knower, on the one hand, and the target of knowledge on the other.
Gist of Idea
In science we cannoy distinguish the contribution of the knower from what is known
Source
Mazviita Chirimuuta (The Brain Abstracted [2024], 2.1.1)
A Reaction
'Haptic' realism is understood as more tactile than visual, with a bigger gap between experience and reality. She explicitly invokes Kant as the main source of her view. I am more robustly realist that this, but she makes a good case.
Book Reference
Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.45