Hi Soul Dancer, thanks for replying.

What you say may be very true, but it isn’t the subject of this essay. I’m not talking about perspective here, I am focused on scale — specifically the scale at which scientific efforts are focused. We can watch a humming bird flitting about our garden — that’s perspective — but we cannot see its wings in motion because they are just a blur to us — that’s a difference in scale (of speed of motion). And it’s like that for us when we look at a mountain — again that’s our perspective — but we can’t see the wearing away of the mountain because it happens over the course of geologic time, not human time — and that is a difference in scale.

Anything that happens at other than human scale is not (by definition) perceivable by us, so we can not be conscious of it, and therefore cannot understand it. What we are left with our conceptual theories and inventive models that try to convey that which we ourselves can’t experience on our hand. This removes our power to discover new knowledge, crippling us by taking that power and transferring it to scientists, who are then the arbiters of “truth.”

This isn’t an attack on science, it is a disclosing of a kind of science that empowers us all and which should be obvious, but has been forgotten.

In this article, I am also trying to bring back the word “science” to its original meaning of “having or producing knowledge,” rather than its new meaning of “results of the practice of the scientific method,” and especially that of constructive scientific theorizing and experimentation that moves the scale — and the true action — beyond our human scale.

Thank you for taking the time to respond.