MIKE, on July 23 1998 you wrote to me:

Jake, yesterday you posted at Serendip Forum:

"Mike, WHAT and HOW belong to the realm of EMPIRICISM, the one of the sense-perceived. It moved one step up when POSITIVISM refused categorically to deal with the abstruse.
WHY belongs to the realm of the Super-coprots! "

Since I DO believe in analogies, here's how your sentence looks to me, Jake:
"This morning I am not going to have breakfast because my car is black."

Mike, YOUR present sentence is incomplete: You should add, "...and the White Supremacy Gov. decreed that owners of black cars are to be shot before breakfast."
You see how it becomes lucid now?

Jake, there MIGHT be a logical connection of CAUSE and EFFECT, or any hidden relationship, in your post on WHAT... but I'm sure that even you don't see it. Simply put, your sentence doesn't make sense even to you.

Mike, I asked a pompous colleague of mine if the following sentence is correct: "Three hours after getting a penicillin shot, the patient's fever decreased." Now, Mike, what would you answer?
My colleague said: "The sentence is not correct because there was no proof that the injection caused the improvement."
This is faulty thinking. The sentence is correct, it states a fact; it does not refer to cause and effect. It is "anecdotal," referring to single observations. If you said, " The fever decreased in 100 patients receiving the medication, and in only 4 receiving a placebo, "then you would certainly be stating a most probable, almost certain, cause and effect relationship.

But let's deal with WHY. I said that the WHY belongs to the realm of the Super-coprots, right so?
Well, What and How are answered through empirical experience, meaning, by observation. WHY is absolutely different: the answers are obtained through the use of meta-thinking abilities, that is, the SUPER-COPROTS.
H. Sapiens is able to answer complex questions, because he enjoys the presence of complex ferroproteins of the COGNITIVE kind (different to the ferroproteins of the AFFECTIVE kind) in his brain (FEPROTS).
Therefore, regarding H. Sapiens' variable capacity to understand the WHY, is an Effect, whose Cause is the presence of very complex, second and third level coprots.

Mike, I'll leave for your sagacity, the following dream, of a long time ago. Try to interpret it.

I was considering writing a book, after I was told that my stories were interesting and well written. I doubted my capabilities for that enterprise.
I dreamed: I want to cross a street, look both sides, no danger, a young woman traverses it full of confidence, I do so too, there is a supermarket, I pick many items from shelves, put them in a cart, reach the counter, wait in line, put back the checked up items in the cart, try to exit through a revolving door, must place items inside a brown-paper bag, as used time ago, can exit now.