All Knowing is Doing

"Our experience is moored to our structure in a binding way.  We do not see the "space" of the world; we live in our field of vision.  We do not see the "colors" of the world; we live in our chromatic space.  Doubtless, as we shall show throughout these pages, we are experiencing a world.  But when we examine more closely how we get to know this world, we invariably find that we cannot separate our history of actions - biological and social - from how this world appears to us.  It is so obvious and close that it is very hard to see."

"All doing is knowing and all knowing is doing." 


The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding.  By Humberto R. Maturana, PhD and Francisco J. Varela, PhD.  Boston, Shambhala, 1987.  Revised Edition, 1998.  Index, glossary, 269 pages.  ISBN: 9780877736424.  VSCL.  Subjects:  History, Philosophy, Knowledge, Science, Evolution, Philosophy.