R asked a question. That question has been on the minds of human beings for thousands of years. There is no answer. Can a Daphnia understand the mind of a human being? It is only recently that that question was even allowed to be asked. It was always there in the minds of reasoning human beings but it had to be kept hidden. I can picture Aristotle sitting by himself, asking himself the same question.
The closest I have ever come to an answer was given to me by a dear one when she quoted "Were you there when I made the mountains?". A person could ponder that question for a lifetime and come no closer to the answer.
There are questions every parent must learn the answers to. Why is the sky blue? What is centripetal force and how can it be? Why don't we fall off of the Earth?
There are so many questions that we just don't have answers for. There are answers, we just don't have them. Neither does the Daphnia. We are just human beings and we plod along through ceturies seeking answers. As we journey towards an answer, we usually find a Greek coming back from the answer. Many times we find that the answer is "Que Sera Sera." for the present. We think that we have found an answer but someone in the future will find that we were wrong. Even Hubble was wrong, not very wrong but still wrong.
The questions will always be there. Some are answered by a methodical plodding of the mind, Pasteur and Salk for instance. Some are answered by flashes of brilliance encountered on a Swiss streetcar. Some will never be answered. Science is a journey for a mind seeking tangible answers. Philosophy is a gym set for the mind seeking a journey.
R has started on the journey simply by asking the question. Newton sat under a tree and discovered an answer from his mind. The Buddha sat under a tree and discovered his mind. R has asked a question and begun the journey. I wonder where the journey will take him. R, say hello to the Greek for me. I used to meet him but that was long ago. I wonder "Why".
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