Great article, and I don't believe it's crediting the wrong people but simply conveying the fact that the ideals put forth have been espoused by a wide range of individuals in the scientific realm over the centuries, as mentioned by StevenJay.
The types of philosophical statements being put forward in this article(and a few past ones to lesser extent) remind me of what my uncle used to say: "a person can only observe the universe through a person's eyes[and other senses], to know the truth we would have to observe the universe as the universe views itself".
If taken too literally one runs into the problem of the universe not being able to 'view' itself but his statement was a philosophical one and not a scientific one and should not be taken too literally. I think everyone here understands what it means as he was basically just paraphrasing the many great thinkers such as those mentioned in this article who have come before us.
Time is a perfect example of this - time is a purely human concept used as a form of measurement and in science time is a very important tool for various aspects of scientific discovery and formulation from a human perspective.
However, the physical universe has no concept of time and as such factoring in time as part of an equation used to explain an aspect of the physical universe is inherently flawed.
The (potentially) multi-billion year old universe does not keep track of time in any conceptualized form that has been as of yet discovered; matter comes into existence by way of some as of yet only hypothesized process and continues to exist until some form of event occurs that causes it to cease to exist. The universe does not keep track of the amount of time for which that matter did exist, there is no 'cosmic clock' ticking away keeping track of how long things have existed.
Some physical objects do contain elements that allow us to measure their "age"(tree rings for a very basic example) but even so we still use the purely human concept of time to explain that "age" in ways human beings can comprehend, i.e - days, months, years, decades, seasons, etc. - all of which are based out of the human experience on this planet and it's specific day/night and seasonal cycles.
The physical universe has no need to comprehend such things in the manner that we do and so to imply that the universe factors in the human concept of time in any aspect is a stretch of the imagination. Time can not have any direct effect on any form of matter.
Though there are many people who disagree with me the idea that the human concept of time exists in some linear ethereal plain almost like a form of physical matter in itself that is capable of being bent or folded or manipulated in any way is a flight of fantasy in my mind's eye. Some who disagree with me on this also state that they don't contend that time is any form of physical matter, yet last I checked only physical matter can be bent or folded and that's exactly what they claim can be done with time.
To put it simply the human concept of time does not reflect the underlying reality of any object's/matter's 'age of existence'.
This is just a single example of this philosophical ideal "in play" and I'm going to stop myself here before I ramble on for a few hours, but there are plenty of other examples of things that are viewed one way in accepted science but can be viewed much differently when the human variable is removed from the equation.
Though I suppose one could argue that since nothing can be "viewed" without the involvement of a human being to observe it the human being is actually a constant in the equation and not a variable in the truest sense, but then it could be said that the rest of the equation is entirely variable based on that constant's position within the equation.
I am an extremely philosophical person and you don't want to get me started on some of the bigger issues out there(take this as a warning) but right now I'm stretching the limits of my own (very tired) philosophical mind and am starting to get a headache so I'll stop there for now, haha.
Comments and/or criticisms are welcomed and encouraged, maybe here I might actually get some feedback since in most other places I frequent people run away from long posts of a philosophical nature whereas there are people here(like myself) who seem to run toward them.
