liminal 🦠 on Nostr: You can analyze anything ad nauseam. But at the same time, you can't grasp anything ...

You can analyze anything ad nauseam. But at the same time, you can't grasp anything from nature in its totality because nature itself is infinitely complex.
So you need to know what is possible to grasp from subjective experience. Things that "noticably" stand out to to us through our senses. And of all those things, what is most important "standing out" part about the thing you want to learn about?
The "difference which makes a difference".

quoting nevent1q…kxhn

> The flexible environment must also be included along with the flexible organism because, as I have already said, the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself. The unit of survival is a flexible organism-in-its-environment... Let us go back to the map and the territory and ask: "What is it in the territory that gets onto the map?" ... if the territory were uniform, nothing would get onto the map except its boundaries ... What gets onto the map, in fact, is difference, be it a difference in altitude, a difference in vegetation, a difference in population structure, difference in surface, or whatever. differences are the things that get onto a map.

- Gregory Bateson "Form, Substance and Difference", in Steps to an Ecology of Mind
https://faculty.washington.edu/jernel/521/Form.htm