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1. Subjective Observation

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   Limitations and The Observer Effect
   A critical limitation inherent to subjective observation is the Observer Effect$($not to be confused with quantum mechanical measurement problems$)$. In the subjective domain, the act of reporting or documenting an observation inevitably contaminates the purity of the initial experience due to the introduction of linguistic structures and memory encoding artifacts. This contamination rate, known as the *[Retrospective Decay Coefficient](/entries/retrospective-decay-coeffic…