Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
The environment as we perceive it is our invention.
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.