[MD] Intellectual Level

[John Carl]

Platt, Ian and Marsha,

 my reading this morn coincides with your discussion.   I offer you  in
support of the idea that paradoxes are not anti-intellectual, but in fact,
quite the opposite:

"The very existence of a paradox can be used to derive some interesting
facts about the relationship between the mind and the universe.  No one has
made such a derivation as boldly as Borges: 'We (the undivided divinity
operating within us) have dreamt the world.  We have dreamt it as firm,
mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and durable in time; but in its
architecture we have allowed tenuous and external crevices of unreason
which tell us it is false'. ... Rather than saying that the paradoxes
indicate that the rational world is 'false', I would say that they indicate
that it is *incomplete* -- that there is more to reality than meets the
eye."

Rudy Rucker, Infinity and the Mind, p 95, quoting Borges from Avatars of the
Tortoise in *Labyrinths*.

John in a hurry, wishing all a happy new year,



On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Platt Holden <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well Ian, if you find a way intellect can avoid paradox or infinite
> regress,
> I hope you will share your discovery. (I don't think intellect includes
> intuitive or other nonconceptual experiences.)
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