Heedless of the dew
That marks our closing day
We bind ourselves together.

Haiku by Issa, translated by Lewis Mackenzie

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The puppy too
They pelt with snowballs
Till he scampers off!

Haiku by Issa, translated by Lewis Mackenzie

A little chill it grew,
As we learned at last the meaning
Of the word “parent.”

Haiku by Issa, translated by Lewis Mackenzie

Through this world of ours
the butterfly’s existencs—
Such a hastening..

Haiku by Issa, translated by Lewis Mackenzie

Alameda Creek

A theory, metaphorically speaking, is a set of glasses you put on to see “things” and the relationships between the “things” you see.

We have language— a bunch of different sounds which have meanings, and for the most part, shared meanings .We can talk to each other and for the most part we are using the same or similar meanings most of the time, ..

Theories are expressed with language used to define the “things” and discuss the relationships between the “things.”

As human beings emerged there was no dictionary or set of instructions. The evolution of human beings is about the historical process of people experiencing the universe , differentiating one “thing” from another, giving the “thing” a name which enabled us to communicate with each other as well as build a body of knowledge and differentiating and defining those things which enabled survival.

We experience the universe through our senses —see, hear, touch, smell and taste.Early humans had to differentiate between what they jist to get basic survival.could eat or not eat, what we could touch, and thousands of more things.

Many of those “things” we learned early did not even exist— Air for example was “empty space” between things which served to visually differentiate between things like tree, mountain and sky.Then about 1800s science began to understand that the “no thing ” we called sky was really a bunch of molecules, atoms and electrons.

We experience the universe through our senses —see, hear, touch, smell and taste.Early humans had to differentiate between what they jist to get basic survival.could eat or not eat, what we could touch, and thousands of more things.

Many of those “things” we learned early did not even exist— Air for example histprically was “empty space” between things which served to visually differentiate between things like tree, mountain and sky..Then in 1800s science began to understand that the “no thing ” we called air was really a bunch of molecules, atoms and electrons.

Most of the progress in science is made from developing a theory which is accepted and later new facts are discovered which do not fit the theory and the theory is revised.

We also have confusion over behavioral “concepts” such as “human nature.” When talking about some individual behavior some one says “Oh, thats human nature. ” or “thats what we all do” when not everyone does it. Human nature is a by definition a biological characteristic and its common to know of who of someone does not behave that way and yet if its human nature than we all of us behave like that its in our nature.

During the mid 20th century Karl Popper developed a hierarchy of scientific knowledge, It begins with scientist who has an idea, formulates an hypothesis, using the scientific method does an experiment and finds a piece of unique information that stands by itself—a “thing” — with its own identity and boundaries. A description of the methodology and the results are formally and logically presented using articulate grammer.
This is a “fact.” a s piece of information that is separate from all other pieces of iformation with an indepenbdbet identity..

When scientists accumulate some facts and develop and articulate a relationships between them they create a concept. When scientists accumulate some concepts and articulate a relationship between them this is called a construct..When scientists accumulate some constructs and articulate a relationship between them this is called a
theory. When scientists accumulate some theories and articulate a relationship between them this is called a
Grand Theory

Science is based an facts arrived at using the scientific method in which knowing is solely arrived at from the emperical experiences of human beings,

EndPapers

Before I came
Who and who were dwelling here?
Violets remained.

Kaiku by Issa translated by Lewis Mackenzie

Who am I
to sit and wonder
while the wheels of fate
slowly grind my life away,

Country Joe MacDonald

Sometimes I think I forget my own name,

San Francisco in the late afternon

Taking the back road home .

Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha