ULTRAPERSPECTIVE AND ENDOPHYSICS

Ultraperspective is the capability of human beings to step into the sh oes of another person. Endophysics is the science of those physical pr opertis of the world which exist not from the outside but only from th e inside. Both have in common the adoption of an 'exterior' position. In the one case, the exteriority is 'horizontal', in the other, 'verti cal'. Ultraperspective is a macroscopic concept, endophysics a microsc opic one. Both can be implemented in computer models. Novel experiment s can be set up in either domain: animals acquiring the status of huma n persons, and objective features of the physical world acquiring the status of an observer-specific mirage. Mead and Levinas, and Einstein and Bohr, are the protagonists. In the age of computer-assisted enligh tenment, a new look at the ethical roots of science appears justified.