“[Perhaps] it’s true that the surest path to certain kinds of scientific knowledge is the construction of strictly third-person accounts of things; but we mustn’t forget that there really is no such thing as a third-person perspective. All perspective is, by definition, first-person. The third-person vantage is a methodological fiction without any objective existence. It’s a mere distillate of an accumulation of first-person reports; and then, of course, even those supposedly impersonal reports must still be translated through the privacy of our own minds. … The myth of pure ‘objective’ verification encourages us to imagine that the proper authority of the first-person vantage can be alienated from itself and situated instead in some fabulous, unbiased place of observation located nowhere, or everywhere, or wherever we want, but somehow outside of subjectivity. But a myth is all it is. That ‘third person’ is a mirage, like the spectral companion that wanderers in wild places sometimes hallucinate walking alongside them. In the end, there’s only the first-person vantage.”
— David Bentley Hart (as Psyche), All Things are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life, 30–31