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Science is done by human beings rather than machines so ideas and ideology tend to affect the subjective epistemology of scientists. Computer programs perform just the iterations that are written for them so they haven't that experience. Funding of scientific ventures by the public would implicitly involve political ideology as criteria for selection of what projects to fund. Moral people would not want to fund a modern Joseph Mengele working on twins for scientific purposes for example, and many Christians would oppose abortion as a scientific device as well as embryonic stem cell research. There are people that would oppose privately funded scientific research if it was implicitly immoral research in their point of view. One then has the question of the right role of moral judgments in a democracy, and if the trend of trans-national imperialism and its amoral prerogatives of corporatist power should always override mere political opinions of a national citizenry.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in his book 'The Fourfold Roots of Reason' considered some of the points about perception and cognitive processing that human beings experience. Schopenhauer had the opinion that raw sense data is interpreted by innate structures of understanding into the usual appearance of reality. Schopenhauer believed that Immanuel Kant's conceptual portrayal of the noumenal facts of reality for itself were transfered directly to human cognition through the senses without a fundamental interpretation by the human understanding; it is an interesting and important conjecture. Schopenhauer's ideas about a human interpretation factor existing through training such as provides depth perception (examples were given of blind persons suddenly receiving vision and viewing things one-dimensionally) indicate comparatively some of the issues that fundamentally exists with interpretation of human experience-much of it is learned even without ideology through natural experience.

The visual and sensory field complex human beings experience in a sense all exist in idea; the sole proof of existence and experience of reality is through self-cognition and it's extension. The way that self-cognition interprets the [potential electric or matter field of the universe is that adapted to the capacity of
human reasoning and sense cognition. It is theoretically possible that human awareness through additional training and technology one day could expand to include not only the standard four

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