Viewing a life-cycle removes the ecological (conjugate habitat-inhabitant relational) dimensionality

‘Theory’ is a way of understanding how the world works which in turn shapes our behaviour and how we relate to and engage with one another and with our shared living space.

‘Theory’ can be either religious or scientific and the theories of our culture are infused into us early on in our lives.  As B. F. Skinner observes; “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”.  That is why children who grow up in a culture that embraces particular religious theories (God created nature in the form of a collection of local material beings) and scientific theories (the earth occupies the centre of the universe) tend to believe in the same theories, and to infuse into their children at an early age, these same theories.   As in the examples in parentheses, there tends to be overlap in these religious and scientific theories; e.g. the ‘absolute being’ of ‘local material bodies’.   Since the world is evidently ‘evolving’, there have been different religious and scientific theories that try to reconcile a world undergoing continual ‘becoming’ and a world portrayed in terms of a ‘collection of material beings’. (more…)