Are some cultural values incompatible with science?
Nor will your cultural values get in the way. The method of science is wholly compatible with all cultures. This is not to be confused with the results of science, which often aren’t compatible. Failure to separate the method of science from the results of science is both egregious and common (an example). Science is not a way of doing something so vague as “perceiving nature”, nor is it a rational mental model of the world (for some value of “rational”). It is a method that produces disinterested, unbiased insights into the workings of the world. It is an algorithm: apply it diligently and, regardless of whether the truth is palatable or not and irrespective of your subscription to any belief system, the truth will emerge. It is a strategy. Don’t tell me that there is something ineluctably Western about science because it takes things apart to understand them and that there is a different way, a better way, some kind of circle metaphor or whole-not-part metaphor that offers a new way
