Eventually physicists got on to explaining what happens when light illuminates something and we see it. The founder of Anthropology, Franz Boas started out as a physical scientist looking into an aspect of this question (with sea water) but there were all these interesting Indians around and he shifted focus. For example, the question 'what am I really seeing when I look at something' was addressed by early philosophers such as Plato, and later became a matter of scientific inquiry. It is quite possible for a question or subject to shift between the scientific and philosophical realm (though not always retaining relevance).

but typically one that is not subject to direct scientific interrogation. A philosophical question is one engendering enquiry about meaning, value, knowledge, reality, etc. What they are not, however, is philosophy.ДЄ Zen KЕЌan is a touchstone to Zen thought and belief. Collectively they form the basis for meditation. Many are references to well known stories.

A KЕЌan is a question or statement posed as part of Zen practice designed to challenge a student or to represent a salient belief. Yes, there is a link, no, they are not the same.Д«y the way, 'What is the sound of one hand clapping?' is not a question of philosophy. Equating GMO technology to prior traditional agriculture, in asking what can come of it, is like equating space travel to horse and buggy travel. We have been manipulating traits for thousands of years, not genes, and GMO technology allows us to move genes between organisms that we can not interbreed in the agricultural setting, thus providing potential opportunities heretofore unimagined. For example, when he says that GMO agriculture is exactly the same as traditional agriculture because we've been manipulating genes for thousand of years, he belies a misunderstanding of genes, plants, history, and GMO technology. But, he is not always correct, and he is sometimes abysmally wrong. Much of what he says is, of course, wonderful and insightful and even inspiring. (Until recently, anyway, see below.)ДЄnd that would be of little consequence were it not for the fact that approximately 23.41% of people who are not scientists (or philosophers) who also love science believe whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson says. He does not remember this event, but ever since then, he's had this idea that philosophy is a bad thing, a worthless enterprise. I believe that when Neil was a child, in the crib, a philosopher came along and scared him. This seems to be a difficulty NdGT has, this thing with philosophy. Is a thumb a finger?ДЄ while back my friend Massimo Pigliucci took Neil deGrasse Tyson to task for, among other things, equating philosophy with asking the question, 'What is the sound of one hand clapping?' That was a dig, of course, made in the context of suggesting that philosophy had no real utility, and that the real thinking was all about science, not philosophy. This, of course, leaves open another important philosophical question.

It sounds a lot like two hands clapping, but quieter, because you can only do it by slapping your thumb against a couple of your other fingers and not to hard.

The sound of one hand clapping