a new understanding of today, time and space.

now one might say, but Kropotkin, you are espousing new age nonsense or
religion or utter nonsense or whatever you seem to be babbling about…

but the truth is… it doesn’t matter what we call it…

a journey is never about the destination, but about the trip, the journey…

the human journey is never about the end, the destination, which is death,
but about the journey and it doesn’t matter what we call death, be it death
or non-existence or non-being or passed on or gone to a better place…
it is about the journey we take before that final experience…

so if after death and you could report your journey of life, what would
you want to be able to report back about your journey?

I did this or I was that or I traveled or I became this on my way to…
being or becoming? did you engage in simple being or did you engaged
in becoming? which one would you rather report back to the living?

I was or I engaged in becoming?

Kropotkin

so, my “system” is one of order vs disorder…
that which improves the order of the system is
approved of and that which increases disorder is disapproved of…

we, each of us, exists in a series of systems, politically, economically
and socially…so in the political, that which improves the order of the
system is approved of and that which increases the disorder is disapproved of…
but does that “disapproval” include dissent?
dissent does cause disorder within the society and so, theoretically must
be disapproved of…

not at all, even if dissent does cause disorder within the society/system…
dissent must be part and parcel of any political system, either officially
or unofficially and it would be better if dissent were part of any
political system officially…if fact, it is the genius of the American
political system that the use of dissent is officially protected by
the bill of rights…

the value of dissent is for what must be avoided at all cost, which is
the natural conservatism of “people” to codify values and beliefs and
actions…values in fact, must be changeable and adaptable to
to fit any new changes in society…values are meant to be of value to
to serve the people in their pursuit of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
values are a tool, nothing more, and values must be flexible enough to enable
people to navigate life…dissent is also a tool to help people navigate life…

occasionally we must dissent, to increase disorder to the overall benefit of
the society to which we belong as benefitting society does benefit us
personally…and occasionally, dissent is the means to improve society…
the trick is to know when dissent is the answer and when it is not…
this understanding of when dissent is needed and not needed is the
understanding of political science…

I believe that this is the time for dissent for the forces of government
are engaged in the acts of disorder, which is the exclusion of, the
discrimination of, the refusal to integrate people within society…

laws that discriminate against people, laws that exclude people,
that laws don’t integrate people are acts of disorder against
the benefit of society…and must have dissent against them…
disorder…for to pursue laws against people and their values
is really an act of nihilism… for that is nihilism, the negation of
human values and negating human rights, negating people’s
right to act in their own interest is nihilism…and being able
to pursue one’s own values within such values as tolerance,
and respect and freedom to act is paramount…

in other words…we must pursue justice and freedom as
fundamental properties of a society… justice is the act of
equality and inclusion and freedom is the choices allowed…
and any actions which deny justice or freedom must be fought…
give dissent to…

so laws which deny justice or freedom must have dissent
as their response…we cannot codify any attempt to
deny justice or freedom…we must fight, dissent in any attempt
to legitimize denying justice or freedom…thus we have
a course of action… we allow voting rights, we allow abortions,
we increase toleration and increase justice for all…
freedom and justice is our template for actions as that
is the path to order in our political system…and anything
that denies freedom and justice must have dissent
as it consequences…

Kropotkin

I want just mention Hegel who says, that philosophy is the conceptualization of one owns time. This is a way to concile the truth while being human and making Errors. The dissent culminates in critique. Philosophy is built in this way: making Errors which survive time by it s performative value.

Been on vacation and doing this on my
cell phone, soooooo

Was thinking last night about existentialism and it’s
Understanding of angst, anxiety and despair.
We have in opposition to or to combat angst, religion
and philosophy and science. I have felt angst over
the years and one way for me to deal was
philosophy. The Greeks used philosophy as a
way of life. It wasn’t academic as we use philosophy
but genuine means to finding a way of living.
Each school, platonic, Stoic, Aristotle, epicurean ,
was a way of life and understood to be such by everyone. The Christians took this idea from the
Greeks and meant Christianity to be a way of life.
So which ancient school best fit your way of life?

Kropotkin

So in my last post, I mentioned existentialism
And I mentioned philosophy as a way of life…
Now can we used existentialism as a way of
Life? To have anxiety and despair and angst
as a way of life would get old, real fast…
That is why existentialism failed as a way
of life, it cannot exist as a way of life. So
the one possibility for a way of life
in the last 150 years failed…

So what are our options? Or is even
finding a way of life not practical? The question
of how we live our life found in finding a
a way of life or is it something else?

This idea of, how is one to live, is not
just an individual one, it has social,
political, economic, cultural impact…
Our individual decisions impact society…
If I have a child, that impacts society…
Every choice we make, leaves our
footprint on society… so we must understand
How we are to live, in a wider context, that
of how it impacts society. We live in a spider web
where all parts of the web, society, is
connected.

Kropotkin

Yes there is a web; it is holistic. The riddle of intentionality (Husserl) could be solved (Lévinas). It does mean that the constitution of some singular Event is mirrored within the whole. And the whole says to the singular: you are false if you restrict yourself to the singular. That’s the definitive. And you are right, as a part of the whole. That’s performative. So we can understand history: all instances have a self-understanding as truth, but in the course of history it is false. The performative binds the two perspectives.

As I have been on Vacation for the last week and a couple of days,
I have a notebook full of thoughts and idea’s…

So what does it mean to this question of “how to live one’s life”
in regards to say, patriotism? some here have made ill defined
and ill conceived statements about patriotism…
How standing for the flag is patriotism because it supports
the military but that leaves the problem of why do the
military stand? is it for themselves? No, the truth of the matter
is that we stand for the values that this country represents…
but that leaves a secondary problem… .which values?

I stand for the values that the flag represents and what values are those?

It has been said, truth, justice and the American way of life…
or perhaps it is freedom and honesty…
that is part of the problem… our values have never been clearly
defined or stated…so what are patriotic values… I am sure the
64 year old guy who shot up that festival last night felt he was
a super patriot and doing his patriotic duty…and without any
clear values to point to, I can’t say for sure if he was actually right…

so how are we to live?

Kropotkin

K: this statements leaves me with many questions for the simple reason, I have no idea
what you said…note the language I use… it is simple language of a simple man…
which leaves me with a question I have had for a long time… why the need
for such complicate language? why not simply say what you mean without
all that gooblegook? for example, “That’s performative” I have no idea what that
means and I shouldn’t have to look up every word to understand what someone
means…I make it a point to keep my language simple and clear…
I use language that any kid in high school might understand. I think
this language use is part of the failure of philosophy… it very language meant
to hide and confuse the actual thoughts involved…read Hegel or Kant,
its unreadable crap designed to hide the fact that they are, Hegel and Kant,
trying to pretend to be smarter then we are by using language we don’t understand…
its a game, nothing more…when reading Kant or Hegel, all I can think of
is the old story of the emperor new clothes…with Kant and Hegel being
the emperor…

Kropotkin

system: is a regularly interacting or interdependent group
of items forming a unified whole. Every system is delineated by its
spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced
by its environment, described by its structure and purpose
and expressed in its functioning…

Holism: is the idea that systems emphasize the priority of the whole
over its parts…

the word system means “something to look at” you must have
a very high visual gradient to have systematization… or so says wiki…

Boundaries: berries that define a system and distinguish it from other
systems in the environment.

Homeostasis: the tendency of a system to resist change and maintain
status quo.

adaptation: the tendency of a system to make the changes needed
to protect itself and grow to accomplish it goal…

Reciprocal transactions: circular interactions that systems
engage in such that they influence one another…

feedback loop: the process by which systems self-correct
based on reactions from other systems in the environment…

Throughput: energy in the system to accomplish its goals…

these are the important ideas we need to understand to make
sense of my next number of posts…

Kropotkin

we have, for thousands of years attempted to define man/human beings…
and we have failed… but why? why have we failed to understand man/human beings?

I believe its because we haven’t put human beings into the proper context…
we have isolated our thinking about who we are…
in other words, we haven’t seen ourselves in our rightful context…
we look at ourselves as separate individuals with no context to
our environment or what is going around us…

I am Kropotkin…
I am of medium height and built…
I am older but still have my hair but its going gray…
I am a liberal… I watch baseball and basketball and hockey
but not football.

all these things are true about me, but they don’t put me into a context…

I am a father and a husband, brother and son…
now all of these things put me into a context because
they place me into systems…

systems as defined as a regularly interacting group…
that is being a father and a husband and son and a brother…
the family is one type of system…my family, my immediate
family and my mother and brother and sisters are a system…
and we fit into the terms I offered earlier…
there is feedback and adaptation and homeostasis and all the
other signs of a system…we will call this type of system as biological…
a biological system…

we live on planet earth, the third planet from the sun,
in a solar system with 8 planets… this is by its very name,
a system…
think of our solar system, imagine as the planets revolve around
the sun…we are an open system which means, matter and energy
go into and out of the system… just as a biological system is an open
system and just as the family is an open system… matter and energy
go into and out of the biological and solar system…the human body
is also a system and a biological system which has matter and energy
going into and out of…the solar system is an natural system…
thus meaning it was created naturally by forces like gravity and the big bang
and material like dust…

and then we have systems like a car engine… which is also an open
system in which matter and energy passes into and out of…
we call this type of system a mechanical system…

so far, we have three different types of systems, the body which is
a biological system and the solar system which is a natural system and the engine
which is a mechanical system…we have plenty of other systems but first let us
understand these three systems…

all three operate as systems and can be defined as systems, the body,
the solar system and the car engine…

the matter and energy used by each is different however…
the input and output of each system, biological, natural
and mechanical are different…now each of these systems
operate within both larger and smaller systems…

the car engine for example, doesn’t exist in isolation by itself,
it has the other systems of the car also working to achieve its
goal and that is the movement of the car toward some destination…

the engine is part of a larger system, the electrical system for example
in a car and the input and output of the system called gas and carbon
monoxide for example helps the car achieve its goal of moving…

the car has its feedback loop and adaptation and homeostasis aspect…
just like any system of which the engine is part of that system…

so the engine is part of a larger system… just like the body or the family
is part of a larger system

and the solar system is part of a larger system, the milky way galaxy…
imagine the milky way galaxy as its revolves around in space and then
try to find our solar system in the midst of that milky way galaxy…
you can’t… but the solar system is part of that immensely large
galaxy and that milky way galaxy is part of a larger system, the local
group of galaxies which is part of the Virgo Supercluster which is part
of the Laniakea Supercluster… each cluster gets bigger and bigger…
and all of them part of larger system in which passes matter and energy
and another component, which is gravity and gravity is why the solar system
is different then a biological or mechanical system… so each system, be it
natural or biological or mechanical have slightly different aspects to it…
but they are still systems, just as we humans are a system in our bodies…

so look out the window and see a tree or a bush, we tend to isolate
that tree or bush into a separate thing, whereas the tree or bush exists
within a system, an ecosystem, in which the tree and the local systems
exchange matter and energy and support each other…so to properly
understand a tree, you must understand the ecosystem around the tree
and explain how the tree interacts with the local environment…
to make sense of a tree…that is why we have failed in our understanding
of the man/human being… we isolate the human being from the systems surrounding
us… we exist in many different systems… for example,
we have the economic system, the political system,
the social/society system and the cultural system,
we have many more systems but let us understand these
system first…after a short break…to finish laundry…

Kropotkin

that took a bit longer then I thought…

anyway, we return to systems…

we have systems such as natural, the solar system, we have systems that
are biological, human beings, and we have mechanical, car engines…
is this the complete list, hardly, we can go on naming systems until the
cows come home, but I have my eye on other systems…

we have Kropotkin once again…
a human being…
who is a biological system unto himself but
also part of the larger biological systems that surrounds
him…as mentioned earlier, we have trees which are part of the
ecosystem and so is Kropotkin…I also exist within a natural system,
being part of planet earth which is part of the solar system…
so I exist within several different types of systems…

now as far as any mechanical systems, I have a car
and I wear a hearing aid and glasses. so I am engaged in
mechanical systems and I use computers and cook dinner
and other such uses of mechanical systems…

as noted earlier, there are also systems that are of human construct…
economic, political, social/society, cultural… among others…I exist
within various aspects of these systems and I act and interact
with some more systems then other systems…

I mentioned I am a father and husband, so I interact with my wife and
my daughter all the time…I engage with that system many, many times a day…
the family system…as a family and individually, I/we interact with other
systems such as our economic, political, social/society, cultural systems…
I work so interact with other systems… family, social, economic but not so much
political…but the political does interact with me at work, the political system
does create rules and laws that affect me at work and I must work with…
a company is a system and it works with other companies which are their
own systems and each company works within an economic system…
think of growth of systems from human being to the planet to the solar
system to the local group of stars to the galaxy to the local supercluster
of galaxies to ever larger superclusters until we reach the universe…
the universe is just another system abet a very large system…

recall those Hubble pictures of the universe with galaxies lined
up as far as the eye can see and how do you find the milky way
in the midst of all those galaxies? our economic system is the same
way…once again with stand with Kropotkin, but this time at his checkstand
ringing up groceries and creating economic activity with every single
transaction…withdraw a bit and see the company at large and my work
get very, very small but it is still there being a part of the system,
an open system which has matter and energy going into and out of the system…
then look at the even bigger picture of all retail business and my company, which
is a very, very large company becomes much smaller and I, Kropotkin, is no longer
seen… my economic activity is very small indeed in the midst of all the retail activity
within a county or a state or a country and then you add in not just retail activity,
but all kinds of economic activity, all kinds of economic systems, that in the end
add up to the GNP, Gross National Product, which is a listing of all economic
activity in the country of which I have a small, miniscule part of, as a worker,
as a consumer, I also have a small, miniscule part of, but that is another part
of the economic system, you have producers, and I exist as a worker in that aspect
of the economic system and as a consumer, I buy things and that is part of the
economic system and you can follow that line of consumers from the very small,
Kropotkin and his system the family, to very large consumer actions, the government
for instance…

but we don’t engage just with the economic, not as Marxists suppose,
we deal with the political system also and we can follow that in
same way, from Kropotkin to paying taxes to larger companies paying taxes,
I wish, to larger and larger political activity in which we have the federal
government…I vote every single election and that is part of my
political engagement and that political engagement can be affected
by the economic and social/society and the cultural…
we exist within many different types of systems and sometimes
it is hard to distinguish between the many different systems…
is it the economic that is affecting us or is it the political
or is it the social/society or the cultural system that is affecting
us and sometime is it is more then one system that is affecting us
and it makes it hard to understand and/or distinguish between the
various systems…many people blame the political system
for their problems when in reality it is the economic systems that
that are causing many of American issues…

but we cannot tell because it is so hard to break out the economic
and the political from each other…

and where does little ole Kropotkin fit into all this?

that is the question…

to understand one person, Kropotkin, you have to place him into
context of the many, many different systems that he exists within…

so how am I to live? that is the question but how do we answer that
within so many different systems? how am I to live is different
within the political and different within the economic and different with
the social and different within the cultural…

and within each system we have the feedback loop and the adaptation
aspect and the homeostasis aspect…and within each larger system, we
also have those aspects but with every single increase in the system,
the ability to create feedback and to adapt and to control the
homeostasis gets harder…the larger the system, the harder each
of these aspects of a system becomes to interact…my feedback on
a small, store level is greater then on a company level and much smaller
on the entire retail level and so on…this is one of the great problems with
systems, as they grow larger they no longer operate as systems should…
for a system to be successful, it must have a feedback loop and an
adaptation and homeostasis aspect, but as our systems grow larger,
these aspects become less able to engage within the system…
I have a larger voice politically within my small city then I do within
a state, politically and far less so within a country aspect…

as the system grows larger, the systems that maintain the systems
become harder and harder to maintain those systems because
of the fact they lose their ability to interact with the larger systems…

and we rest for a minute… for I have more to go…

Kropotkin

we have a multitude of systems like there are galaxies in the sky…
and like galaxies, the systems on earth not only cover height, depth,
width but cover time… just like those pictures of the multitude of
galaxies in pictures we see from the Hubble… how do we tell where we
fit into such a large group of systems…when we can’t even tell where
the milky way system lies in a group of galaxies…little less our own little
solar system…this very size of everything keeps us from knowing where
we are… which leads us to the next problem…

perhaps the greatest understanding of human nature occurred under
Marx with his analysis of alienation…but how does this alienation occur?
we have a multitude of systems, economic, political, social/society and
cultural…and we can become alienated by the systems preventing us
from actions such as our feedback loop and adaptation… a system preventing
us from giving our feedback leads to our alienation from the system…
and we see this today, with millions of people being alienated from various
systems including the economic, political, social, cultural…

now we can be alienated from one or more of these systems leading to
not only alienation but angst and anxiety and despair…

I am clearly alienated from the economic system we have…
and I can either learn to accept it or, or fight the system…
I have chosen to fight…I am to a lessor degree, alienated
from the political and to an even lessor degree from the social/society…
and I don’t give a shit about the cultural, so I am not alienated from that…
and people are in various stages of acceptance or alienation of/from
the various systems…how well do we fit into the various
systems is a factor of alienation… and we cannot fit into every single system
because of the sheer number of systems we have, so on some level,
everybody is alienated from one or two systems to many, many systems…
and responses can be from taking guns and shooting at innocent people,
a rather gutless and shameful action because guns and violence never
solve anything to feeling angst and anxiety and despair about oneself…
much of our current problems stem from our alienation and anxiety
from not being connected to our systems, not being part of the system
and not allowing our input and feedback and adaptation to be accepted
by the system…we are uncomfortable with and shut out of our many systems
in which we belong to, be it economic, political, social/society and cultural…
the anger and frustration many feel comes from being shut out of our systems,
not allowing system functions like feedback to allow the system to adapt to
the feelings of the people…we are shut out of many systems and that causes
angst and anxiety and anger and despair and all the other feelings we have as
we become more and more alienated from those systems…

and the question remains, given all of the above, how do I live my life?

Kropotkin

we are members of and engage with many different systems, family,
work, school, church, political to name a few and we engage in different
degrees with each system… now because of the differences between the
system as the biological is different then the mechanical and is different
from the natural, we each exist in different systems that are often
in conflict and compete against each other and demands different things
from us… the family system wants/needs different things then the work system,
which requires different things then the political system… we sometimes
feel conflicted and anxious, suffer from angst because of the conflicting
demands from the different systems…

the work system we have, of capitalism is nihilistic… it has no use
for human values like love and hope and justice and negates these
values because these values don’t create profit whereas the family
system is all about these values of love and justice and hope…
whereas love has no place in the political system but justice does…
this is part of the modern problem whereas different systems demand
different values to be followed and different systems negate certain values…

the family system wouldn’t work with if everyone in any given family tried
to extract profit from everyone else in the family…and the capitalist
system wouldn’t work if all it tried to get was love and cooperation from
everyone… businesses often claim that their company treats its workers
like family…but that just isn’t true as long as money/profit dominates
the company…

different systems, different objectives, different goals…
and individually, we have to sort out which systems objectives and goals
are worth our efforts and which one aren’t…

we are torn by and struggle with, each systems demands for loyalty
and obedience…

the modern world’s is creating the angst and anxiety and despair
in the people because we cannot hold true with every demand from
every system… we just can’t… if we don’t hold true with the economic,
we are fired and if we don’t hold true with the political, we are jailed
and if we don’t hold true with the social, we are ostracize and if we don’t
hold true to the cultural, we are deemed irrelevant…

and we can’t hold true to every system and every demand, so we
are left with inner conflicts between the competing and conflicting
systems and their demands…

how am I to live?

given the conflicting and competing demands of the various systems,
that seems to be impossible… the only solution I see is
we align all the systems… we have each system hold the same values
as much as they can… so the economic is just as concerned with justice
as the political and we have all the various systems be concerned with love
and value life… by having all the systems holding the same values
that we help remove the anxiety and angst of the modern world…
we are no longer torn and conflicted by different, competing systems
and their different and competing values…

justice becomes a value throughout all systems, from the economic to
the political to the social to the cultural…love becomes a value
through all the systems, not just the family and religious systems…

which leads us to our next point, holism…

Kropotkin

some last thoughts before I move onto holism and that
is that the battle between competing and conflicting values,
or competing goods as defined by Barrett in his book, “The Irrational Man”
as espoused by the different systems can be confusing…

but that is what we use philosophy for, to sort the competing claims
and find out if the truths they proclaim are valid claims… thus
the economic system claim that money/profits are the highest values
to be pursued and the legal system that justice is the highest value to
be pursued… this is the very role of philosophy, the understanding
of values and science, the role of science is the understanding of facts…

they pursue different things, science and philosophy…

and we return to our topic at hand, holism…

holism emphasizes the priority of the whole of it parts…
and every system does emphasize the priority of the whole over its parts…

look at the human body, that system…every single cell in the human body
is replaced every 7 years, the parts are replaced and yet, we still hold
to our body as existing whole since our birth…we lose blood and replace blood
and yet we still hold that we are whole…
the parts come and go and yet, we still believe ourselves to be a whole system…

the human race has existed for a million plus years and yet, parts of the human race,
the individual parts of the human race have come and gone, many thousands of
generations have come and gone since the beginning… I too shall, at some point,
die and leave the scene of the human beings existence and yet, the human race
shall go on, the system shall go on, regardless of whether or not I am here…
the whole, the human race, shall go on, even as part, individual parts like me,
shall come and go… so the whole does have more priority over the parts and yet,
and yet, the parts do have a role and a value within the whole…

we individual human beings, do have a role within the whole, the human race…
the parts are just as important as the whole because without the parts, there is
no whole… the whole needs the parts and the parts need the whole…
the individual cells of the human body need the whole, the human body
needs the individual cells just as much… the whole needs the part and the parts needs
the whole…

as we need both, we need to begin to emphasize both, the whole as well as the parts…

the economic system of capitalism is a whole system which depends on its parts, the
worker and the consumer to survive, the parts the worker and the consumer need
the whole, the economic system to survive, also and this is important,
the economic system doesn’t have to be capitalism…
the human race has had 8 economic systems since the beginning of existence
and we can replace economic systems before we can replace the parts,
the individual parts that make up the system…

so think about what economic system best fits the values of the human being…
or the best political system that best fits the values of human beings…
instead of making human beings try to fit their values into the system,
try to make the systems fit the values of the human beings…
make the systems fit the values of human beings instead of the other
way around…

Kropotkin

The whole and it s parts. Two interpretations: the whole determines the parts like the Führer in the third Reich. Or it opens us, as the organic philosophy of Whitehead. Perhaps that is the difference between monads in Leibniz and Husserl. Leibniz: monads preestablished harmony without communication. Husserl: Communication is possible.

in doing my research, I notice that Newton considered space and time,
to be absolute and in his “Mathematica” used math to make a detailed
understanding of the natural world… his math allowed us to make predictions
and understand how motion of the earth and the solar system worked…
and he based all this on his idea of absolute space and time…

Now Einstein found space and time to be relative and used math to
make a detailed understanding of the world… His, Einstein, math
allowed us to make predictions and understand how the motion of the earth
and the solar system worked and he based all this on his idea of relative
space and time…

Einstein and Newton began in different places, one believed in absolute
space and time and the other did not and yet, both were able to
use math to make accurate predictions in the motion of the universe…

it says something interesting that beginning in different places, absolute
space and time and relative space and time, that they arrived at the same place…
and in doing so, were able to make accurate predictions about our universe…

perhaps our universe is far more flexible then we think…

Kropotkin

K: the interesting thing to note is the whole and the parts are all
made of the same thing… we are made of star matter and star
matter is us… everything in the universe is made up of matter, atoms,
that has been recycled over and over and over again over 14 billion years…

the whole and the parts are made of the same thing…
thus we have a connection of being the same thing…
and this we must understand…all matter was created from
the same stuff right at the beginning of time, the big bang…
like brothers and sisters having a connection or other family members
having a connection, we have the same connection with everything
in the universe…

Kropotkin

as I engage in my research in the 17 and 18 century philosophy,
one question dominates that era, basically from Descartes to Hume,
and that question is the question of human knowledge, its scope and limits…
Locke from example could have named his “Essay concerning Human understanding”…
as "Human Knowledge: its scope and limits… and that was a major question of
the time and yet, today we pay little attention to this idea of the scope
and limit of human knowledge, why? because it is not our question…
it is not the question of our time… and every age, every era, every time
period has its own questions…so, if the scope and limit of human knowledge is
not our question, then what is? what question drives our age, our time?

Kropotkin

in thinking about knowledge, one is struck by an idea…

Knowledge is about relations, relationships…
for example, take a tree…
look at that tree… can you make any sense of,
or get knowledge of that tree by just looking at it…
No, you have to understand the relationships that the tree
has… for example, what is the relationship between the tree
branches and the trunk of the tree? or the relationship between
the ground the tree sits upon and the tree leaves? Knowing the
relationship between the various aspects of the tree and other aspects,
we can have knowledge about the tree…the tree is a living thing that connects
with the air, earth, water and the relationship that the tree has with air is…
and the relationship the tree has with the earth is… and the relationship
the tree has with water is…and we gain knowledge of the tree by its
relationships with other matter…you cannot understand the human being
without understanding our relationships with other matter…

set 5 people in a room… not what is the relationship between them?
the understanding of the relationship between those 5 people tells us
information/knowledge about those 5 people… they could be 5 random
people in which we need to better understand the relationship
between the 5 to have knowledge about them… but if the 5 people
are related, say a family, then we have knowledge about those 5 people…

Knowledge/information is about the relationship between things…
take gravity for example, we don’t understand its relationships to
the other forces, thus we lack knowledge/information about gravity…
this information/knowledge is related to our senses…
we use our senses to make connections between objects
and their relationships… as we lack the senses to
understanding the various relationships of gravity, we
can’t make any connection between gravity and the other forces…
once we have the senses to fully grasp the relationship between
gravity and the other forces, we will have knowledge/information about
gravity…tools such as the telescope are a means of extending our
senses to include those details that we cannot see with
our basic senses, vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste…
tools extend our senses to help us understand the relationships
of things like gravity and the human being and space and the earth and…

mathematics is simply a tool designed to help us understand
the relationship between numbers…and the relationship between
objects and us…and objects and other objects…

Knowledge/information is simply about finding out about the
the relationships between objects
as we extend our tools/senses, we shall be able to increase
our knowledge/information about the universe…
as long as we continue to make connections about relationships
between objects and us…

Kropotkin