[MD] I Am a Strange Loop

[Heather Perella]

> [Arlo previously]
> Paradox, recursion, self-referentiality, "strange
> loops" reveal the 
> Escherian landscape around us.
> 
> [SA previously]
> What is the Escherian landscape? ... I'm just trying
> to understand 
> what your saying here.
> 
> [Arlo]
> What I'm saying is we are symbolically mediated
> beings. Our intellection of "the world" is thus one
where
> paradox, recursion, strange loops and the like are
unavoidable, when > we turn intellection 
> back on intellect, when we attempt to symbolically
> represent WITHIN a 
> symbol system that very system itself.
> Hofstadter refers to this as "essential
> incompleteness", saying "The 
> fascinating thing is that any such system digs its
> own hole...

     I read what you posted and quoted, and I didn't
see an outright definition of Escherian landscape?  
     How about I start from this as follows.  Is the
world about defining?  Does the world happen to be
just reasoning?  What is this reasoning that I
mention?  Not in the kind of reasoning, but in
reasoning itself.  Isn't that just one way in which we
experience?  One may experience reasoning, but we also
walk in the snow.  Why get stuck in thinking life is
about reasoning, when we could just sit or drink tea,
too?

blue, wind blows, and squirrels,
SA  


 
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