Poetic Linguistics

A dualistic-symbiotic relationship of science and art (part 1)

By Steven Willis Henderson

As a young man growing up in Northern Indiana, reading and writing were not something in which I enjoyed nor felt any desire in pursing. However, reflecting back I do recall a door-to-door salesman knocking on our door one day. He probably would have been called a book peddler back then as well as now even though books are marketed quite differently today. As I reminisce , I am unable to recall any images of the man who somehow convinced my mother not only to buy one but two sets of Encyclopedia books ranging from A to Z (50 plus books) from two different publishers but also a third condensed version in one large book.

Now one could argue, either this man was a very good salesman or my mother possessed an intuitive wisdom well beyond her 6^th grade education, something she constantly reminded us of as we grew up.  This may have been the reason why she decided to buy the encyclopedias, one could formulate or it may have been out of a desire to help ensure that her children’s education surpassed hers. Either way one could make the argument or theorize the existence of a dualistic-symbiotic relationship existing with and in-between all material and non-material things with or without this experience.

Yet to do so, one must examine closer, the definition of dualism. First, let us consider the relationship between the dueling elements of mind and body.  Both are or have been equally defined as good and evil as well as being understood as mind and matter (depending upon the source of one’s definition for the term). Yet, to do so we one would think one would have to consider who is or what is, the determining factor in defining what is said to be,  the elemental and/or its counterpart as non-elemental. One would also have to further consider or conclude that good and evil not only share a symbiotic relationship, that may not necessarily be beneficial to the organisms whom which may or may not originate from a different species, but would also include those organisms that exist within the individual species (organisms) self, in which there exist this said, relationship.  This then also begs one to question if this relationship is a beneficial one or non-beneficial one to the organisms internal and external (material and non-material things) existence.

Proposing a solution to the previously proposed question is considered and can be defined as having an ability in one particular branch of science.  This ability or better said, the mental qualities required that permits achievements facilitation to perform or accomplish said solution is in itself defined as an art, whereby one can develop what is said to be a superior skill that one develops by observation, study and practice. The creation of the solution (art) itself, whether it be one of significance or one of perceived beauty with or without a collective can be argued as being the art of science. Thereby one may also then propose that science in itself is an application of one branch of a defined art or the proposed application of encompassing multiple arts and sciences as one.