[MD] The Bridge Over Paradox

[skutvik at online.no]

Hi Platt

24 Feb. you quoted LILA.

    "There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to 
    drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that's in 
    your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a 
    wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited 
    capacity and if you want to learn something about the 
    world you should keep your head empty in order to learn 
    it. It's very easy to spend your whole life swishing old tea 
    around in your cup thinking it's great stuff because you've 
    never really tried anything new, because you could never 
    get it in, because the old stuff prevented its entry because 
    you were so sure the old stuff was so good, because you 
    never really tried anything new . . . on and on in an 
    endless circular pattern." 

> (Lila, 2) Probably not relevant, but I couldn't resist. 

It's relevant and I have often thought about this passage. 
However this metaphor conveys the image of intellect a container 
of ideas. What is poured into a container will conform itself to its 
shape, but the MOQ will not fit intellect's static form, it's the other 
way round.

IMO

Bo