[MD] Intellectual Level

[Platt Holden]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:34 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [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.
>

Platt
Thus intellect us limited, as I said and Pirsig elaborated.


> 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.
>
>
>