the return to this godelian stretch comes in the dalai lama paragraph ... with a citation to the 1931 german article. irresistible copy & paste:

Perception is all we have, as some millenarian spiritual traditions, like Buddhism [21, 22], emphasize. If we are to be painfully honest, instead of saying (see Fig. 1a) ‘if we objectively turn on the switch, the lamp objectively shines’, we ought to say ‘if we perceive we turn on the switch, we perceive the light shines’. This is similar to the situation described by Godel’s theorem where an axiomatic system can- not access an objective notion of truth from within itself.

separately [i think...] hopefully any published version at least cleaned the language up e.g.

If a theft shots Alice...

anyway

of course "we can .. consider science as a social process" ... old work by latour makes this case without trying to invoke big names amid prolix palavering. [the name-dropping in that Acknowledgments section is pretty over the top, too...]

this looks like shitty metaphysics to me.

However, this paper got published ...

hm. where? i only saw the arXiv version, but didn't deep-dive.