Philosophy, to me, has two components:
a) The 'thing' that drives the desire to philosophize [the
activity]
b) The subculture of Philosophy which has grown around this
'thing'.
The thing that drives the desire is present in the youngest of
verbal children and even before that, in readable body language
cues and such.
A moment of confusion. A "Why?" - a baby's cry - it doesn't take
rocket science to interpret such things.
How to explain without words? Showing.
I don't think there's much that can't be explained at some level
all the way down to even pre-verbal children in _some_ basic
form.
How would you codify quantum physics? Do a magic trick that
breaks something up into parts, then make those parts disappear
that used to be there, then bring them back together again.
Atomism is explained through the breaking apart and quantum
physics into the disappearing act and re-emergence act.
Baby laughs Baby who understands things are "supposed to" remain
when they go away (object permanence is learned around 6 months
of age) finds it absurd that they disappeared and reappeared.
Likewise, the "ooh spooky uncertainty principle" - "how absurd".
The 'gist' of the concept is the same.
Same thing can be done with Philosophy. The driving force of
Philosophy can be fed even when someone isn't into the present
way the academic philosopher narrative takes place.
