My essay this year in Cosmos & History is importantly about noticing that animals are not primarily involved in conflict, as the Darwinian theory and the equations of ecology are described to mean. When watching animals behave, fish in a stream or mice in the shadows, or even ants, they’re primarily involved in exploring. That […]
Stan,
Phil –
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S: Overall, my point is that nature’s workings are mysterious, and we (think we) understand (just a small portion of) them by way of our discourses.
[ph] Yes, and the portion we can codify in language and write in terms that are culturally meaningful to us and relevant to scientific methods is the useful knowledge […]
Responding to my note appended below:
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Phil - You are so nice to set your ideas forth. This one really resonates with me:
It’s that signal from nature of strain on the resource that we need to read differently. We’ve been reading it backwards, essentially. We’ve been seeing it […]
K.S. - A Teacher with a website of teaching tools,
I appreciate your noticing the key phrase “ask the dumb questions” in my comment. It’s fishing for better questions generally that I was writing about.
I’m sort of a specialist in the “unasked but obviously unexplained” stuff. Usually we only “see” our own meanings for […]