Yes, if you control for eating the picture will look different, because you're creating a different picture. Modern, Western scientific thinking always tries t

Yes, if you control for eating the picture will look different, because you're creating a different picture. Modern, Western scientific thinking always tries to isolate variables, our medicine is always trying to isolate that one specific molecule, etc. This has given us fantastic insights, and allowed us to see the trees for the forest, but we also then start to miss the forest I feel. The forest is a complex and difficult to quantify system of interrelation and interconnection. We may never fully understand the forest, but that doesn't mean the route to effective knowledge about navigating this landscape is to ignore forests, and concentrate on individual trees. I hope the metaphor is clear enough. There are different ways of knowing, and to jarringly switch metaphors, just because you've built a hammer, doesn't make every form of knowledge a nail.