What is God's eye view?
'''God's eye view''' is a name for a [[point of view]] where the speaker or writer assumes he or she has [[knowledge]] only [[God]] would have. It appears several ways: *In [[religion]], when an [[institution]] claims to speak for a [[divine being]]. *In [[writing]], when a writer leaves the [[point of view]] of the [[main actor]] to start writing about things they could not know if the story were in real life. *In [[science]], when a [[scientist]] ignores the way a [[subject-object problem]] affects [[statistics]] or an [[observer effect]] affects [[experiment]]. *In [[medicine]] when a [[Medical doctor|doctor]] makes a claim that [[The Gaze]] they use on a patient, actually sees the problem, rather than making a guess at a problem. *In [[ethics]] when a statement is made about who or what is right, without an honest attempt to make the [[wikt:process|process]] of deciding this consider all points of view. A special case of the last is in a [[wiki]] with a [[GodKing]]. Often this person can get others to believe what they say about what is right, without making any special effort to be fair to other views. Many people think [[René Descartes]] took a God's eye view when he said [[cogito ergo sum]]. [[George Berkeley]] argued that [[optics]] from [[Isaac Newton]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] also had this problem. [[Category:Social sciences]]