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Originally Posted by Profpat  Well that's a bit catty of you Felix. I think Dr. Schrodinger should put you back in your box. |
Thank you for coming to my rescue, Pat. But also let's tone this down, by first apologizing to Aaron and you, too, Felix.
I may have overstretched it all a bit myself, but in essence, I told Aaron he cannot tell me not to do something and then go ahead and do the same thing in a different way himself. There is no need to be upset about this 'conflict,' but there is a need to use this as an example of how communication can get in the way.
Images are tools, words are tools. Scientific data? Just tools, to help us understand what it is that we are looking for: to get an understanding of the entire picture (and 'picture' here ofcourse is a word pointing towards an image).
Please, Felix, read my words more carefully, as if I am not mad at Aaron (which I am not, I have a lot of respect for him, and I appreciate his quest here at toequest very much). While I am not communicating about his questions, I am responding to his need to have certain aspects (such as images) be removed. He has a valid point there in that images are not the real thing; for having to make the jump from reality to that what an image portrays is tricky.
The same goes for words; they always function within structures. No one can use words and it then not belonging to a specific structure. As such, each word belongs to an image.
The real big kahuna is whether the question "What is the Theory of Everything" can even be phrased as such. Before we can find the answer, we must get in the clear whether the concept of such a question (whether the image in which the question is phrased) can even exist. Again, don't jump on it as if it is obvious, because it is not.
Just like you cannot point to a single person when saying family, it may be impossible to point to a single singular answer when saying 'theory of everything.' (please note that I write
single singular). A single answer containing a plural aspect can still exist: an answer to who are a family can be answered by pointing to a minimum of two people.