[MD] Intellectual Level

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
Well Ian, if you find a way intellect can avoid paradox or infinite regress...

[Arlo]
Symbolic representations of "reality" are inherently self-referential. This is
not something that can be overcome, it is just the way it is. The eye cannot
see itself, but positing an endless chain of eyes-seeing-eyes is just a fool's
view.

Phædrus says, "All this is just an analogy." ... Of course it's an analogy.
Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don't know that. That's why the
Chairman missed that statement of Socrates. Phædrus has caught it and
remembered it, because if Socrates hadn't stated it he wouldn't have been
telling the "Truth." (ZMM)

Einstein, Goebels, Magritte, Escher, Pirsig, Hofstadter, Campbell, the Zen
masters... they all saw this. Its a shame you do not.