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Please pardon your Professor, gentle
readers, w hile he traipses across his topic
like one o f those water striders, or "Jesus
Beetles," that dance about on the surface o f
ponds and streams. In his dotage he
sometimes gets confused in his direction,
and is subject to abrupt fits and starts
As we lurch toward the 21st century, our
w o rld is increasingly tilled w ith research and
development staff, scientific and scholarly
professionals o f every stripe, computer and
telecommunication machinery ot uncannily
sophisticated discernment, and a smugness
about what we know, or can find out that,
frankly, terrifies me Perhaps certain truths
are not self-evident How can we know
what we know? I suspect the known, like a
shape-shifting chimera, changes as we
change Even moral truths, once discovered,
are subject to flu x through time.
The renowned biologist, Loren Eiseley, a
man o f reflection whose work amalgamates
the best o f science and poetry, once
described his experience w ith a certain sand
wasp he was studying.
The female wasp o f this species burrows
into a sand tunnel in late fall, depositing an
egg in the ground. The female dies alter the
egg is laid The egg w ill not hatch in the
burrow until wintertim e Since no food
source exists in proxim ity to the recently
hatched wasp larva in its hole, starvation
would be inevitable.
Nature's answer to this circumstance?
The female wasp locates a mature cicada,
drags it into the burrow, and through a
delicate surgical process, performs a
lobotom y on the cicada's notochord, leaving
the insect in a state o f suspended animation.
The wasp larva hatches to a fresh meal in the
dead o f winter.
Eiseley confesses to finding him self all at
sea in attempting to comprehend this
process. The wasp doesn't merely sting or
bite the cicada One must then eliminate
instinctive behavior as an explanation. Since
the lobotom y requires a series o f
sophisticated surgical steps, the process is
learned and transmitted from one generation
to the next How? Eiseley says it's simply
impossible to know, and he must be content
w ith that
1 can be comfortable w ith that approaach
to knowledge Understanding the
com plexities o f our universe is tough
business. Simple dichotomies: right versus
wrong, black or white, good or bad, don t
necessarily f it in the cubbies we would
choose fo r them. Last week a group o f
astronomers were discussing the age o f the
universe on National Public Radio They
expressed dismay because current theory
would seem to indicate that certain stars are
older than the universe itself! Very curious
W e like things neat and pat, but often the
pieces don't quite fit. The Chaos Theory,
currently popular in academic circles,
backhandedly addresses quirks and glitches.
I would like to espouse what I m ight refer
to as "colloidal thinking," in other words,
holding in suspension those things which
don't fit the current schema or our past
beliefs and ideas T ry it fo r awhile even i f it
feels uncomfortable The music o f the
spheres ju st may be composed by Satie, and
that makes understanding difficult.
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