[MD] The Greeks?

[Krimel]

[Mary Replies] 
The levels are but a representation of reality.  Given a choice, would you
prefer to access the representation or the thing represented?

[Krimel]
I thought Matt handled this pretty well. It sounds like one of those thought
experiments like what if you went back and time and killed your grandfather
or something. It is a choice that simply makes no sense. Not even in
principle.

Look if you could travel back in time like rewinding time you would have to
pass through the same undetermined random choice points you did getting here
in the first place. In reverse each of those point could turn out
differently. There is no guarantee that if you went back to your
grandfather's time that he would even be your grandfather. An once you start
time moving forward again, well, you could be your own grandfather (or
grandmother). Except that when you got back to your original time you might
not be you. See that's what make Ham's ideas about the Absolute perspective
so nonsensical. But thanks for asking.

As for your nonsense question try rereading Pirsig's account of Hume and
Kant again. He covers it pretty well.