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  %WORD POINT DIFFER REALITY REFLECT OBJECT SCIENCE 910809

     The   following   considerations   are  relevant   to
the  difficulties  which  scientists  have in relating  to
the crisis in science education.

     There    are    many    words    which    point    to
significantly  different   realities  depending  upon  the
context  in which they   are  used;   especially depending
upon   whether   the  context has to  do   with  realities
outside  the  person using the  words,     or has  to   to
with realities  inside  the person  using  the words.

     Consider the words:   understand,  predict,  control,
analyze, love,  manipulate, regulate, conform, discipline,
desire,  need,   and attitude-toward.   Consider what each
word  may reasonably  be  regarded as pointing to (or else
meaning)  depending  upon whether the speaker is referring
to  self, or to other.  The referent and/or the meaning is
different in  the  reflexive  context than it is  in   the
objective context.

     The  subtly  of  the  differences  becomes  even more
difficult to  articulate  when  the  words  are  used  not
only   in reference  to self alone,   or to  other  alone;
but  also  in reference to relationships between self  and
other,    and  to how  self and other individually  regard
such   relationships  individually---and  how   self-other
regard  their  individual ways  of  regarding   themselves
and    their    relationships.   There   is   an   endless
progression   of  each  one   individually  and   together
regarding antecedent levels of reflexivity.

     All    of  these  considerations  may  exist  in  the
absence     of    explicit    words,       verbalizations,
articulations, languages, discussions, communications, and
conversations;  as well as within  the presence of any/all
of  them.    The  presence   of  them   can  substantially
increase the levels of  complexity of  reflexivity;    and
the difficulties in  pointing  with  words to the increase
in the levels of reflexivity.

     The ability of  a  being to  understand,  predict and
control,    and    describe    its   own   processes    of
understanding,   prediction   and control depends  greatly
upon the level  of internal  complexity of the being,  and
all  that to  which the  being is related;    and  depends
upon  its  ability to be aware of and articulate  its  own
nature,    and  the nature of all else of which it  is  an
integral  part,   and  intimately related to.    The  less
closely  it is related to other  than itself,    the  less
informed  it  can  be,  and so the less  able  it   is  to
articulate  in depth the nature of all else  than  itself;
and  the  less able it is to articulate the nature of  its
relationships with all else than itself.

     How  able  a being is to describe  itself,    others,
and relationships between/among itself/others depends upon
its   attitudes    towards   itself,      others,      and
relationships between/among  itself/others.    If  it   is
dedicated    to  avoiding  the  spending  of  time  giving
consideration to some kinds of relationships between/among
itself/others (as  in the case of compulsive objectivists)
the less able it will be   to  describe  itself,   others,
and     relationships   between/among   itself/others   in
comprehensive ways.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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