[MD] I Am a Strange Loop

[Arlo Bensinger]

[SA]
I read what you posted and quoted, and I didn't see an outright 
definition of Escherian landscape?

[Arlo]
I'm sorry, in the spirit of Escher I give you this.

Escherian landscape. n. 'e-sh&r-E-&n   'lan(d)-"skAp, 1. possessing 
the Qualities of an Escherian landscape.

[SA]
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?

[Arlo]
Of course the world is not about "defining". All I am saying is that 
(1) when we do define, or intellectualize, we do so with symbols, (2) 
when our symbol system becomes sufficiently complex to allow 
"intellection about intellection", or self-reference; paradox, 
recursion and "strange loops" are an unavoidable aspect of that 
attempt. "Mu" is a recognition of any "essential incompleteness" any 
formalization of intellect will have (and is another cross-over point 
between Pirsig and Hofstadter). Koans, by their very nature, attempt 
to point at this "essential incompleteness", as (I would argue) does "art".