How do the Sciences get Pigeon-holed in the Social Imagination...

 

Pigeon-holed ~ as a verb = to deposit or to assign to a particular category or class; especially, in a manner that is too rigid or exclusive.

Make no mistake, this is not about the pigeonhole paradox in quantum physics. The pigeonhole principle in mathematics states that, if three pigeons are roosting in two holes, one hole must contain at least two birds. Though seemingly obvious, the idea helps define the fundamentals of what numbers are and what it means to count things. 

However, in the quantum realm, scientists had predicted that three “pigeons” — technically, quantum particles — could squeeze into two holes without any one particle sharing a hole with another, in what’s known as the quantum pigeonhole effect...[https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-pigeonhole-paradox-photons].

That is truly fascinating and perhaps it has something to do with how sciences get pigeon-holed in the social imagination.  What I am talking about has more to do with something just as fascinating... if the social imagination is agreement reality and it all has to do with shared information, social interaction... bouncing data off another observer, gathering intel so to speak and arriving at an objective fact or solid thing that can be called something specific. 

Take for instance, when a child and all other children in an art class in grade school are asked to draw a picture of their school, their house, a playground and or their family doing something together. 

Given their age which plays a great part in their ability to draw more complicated looking stick people, they tend to draw things as singular disconnected objects. The sun is usually a big circle off in the corner rather than in the middle of the paper. The clouds usually do not touch each other and neither do trees even as a group or orchard.  

Houses and other buildings are draw separately and most animals are profiles whereas family members face front as stick people with large heads. This is typical of scientists and how they manage or draw upon their fields of expertise. Like children in art class everything is assigned to a particular category or class; especially, in a manner that is too rigid or exclusive. They only time they mingle is to get support of their own rigid observations. 

Now, if there are younger scientists in the same lab who would like to be moved up in the department, then they will be less rigid and conforming to seniors academics. And if a senior academic is missing that day, the other senior prof may just toss out or put aside the missing prof to promote his/her own if they think they are more right or have a better chance to get their view across or on top of anyone else's. 

Why is that? Because, scientists today behave not on the quantum level but on the simple mathematics of the pigeon-hole reality (in which we exist on a surface of) which says that not more than one can occupy a single space. The real reality is deeper in the quantum pigeon-hole paradox.  

So, sciences today get pigeon-holed... they exist on the surface of the real reality and end up like blind people looking at an elephant. What does that leave us with? Well, sadly, it provides us with islands of information which need bridges and or conduits or huge spy glasses to see the bigger picture... the totality of the elephant in the room. 

That means the social imagination can get pigeon-holed whenever social actors are engaged in a closed room dynamic. A room with no alternatives, no exists and no windows to open; unless, they are there and those in the room are just not willing to see them as with the elephant... they ignore the obvious in order to remain where they are.